Question

The protagonist of a work of this type dates Eudora during a year living in Mexico to escape McCarthyism. It’s not a comic but in a work of this type, the protagonist has a fling with the factory worker Ginger in Connecticut after graduating from Hunter College High School, where she was friends with a group called “the Branded.” A term that combines “myth” with this genre was coined (15[1])to describe the book (*) Zami. (-5[1])A work of this type ends with the birth of the protagonist’s son after she becomes a cable car conductor in San Francisco. The first of a seven-volume series in this genre chronicles the narrator’s life in Stamps, Arkansas with her brother Bailey and her childhood rape by Mr. Freeman. That work in this genre takes its title from a Paul Lawrence Dunbar poem. For 10 points, name this genre of Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: autobiography [or memoir; accept biomythography; reject “biography”]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Gabe ForrestSquidward Community CollegeWashU6815
Braden BoothMissouriTruman73-5
Fred GarveyTrumanMissouri15410

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2024 ARCADIA at Illinois2024-11-09Y4100%50%25%89.75
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo2024-11-09Y6100%33%0%84.50
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T2024-12-06Y2100%50%50%111.00
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State2024-12-06Y2100%0%0%94.50
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech2024-12-06Y475%0%50%112.00
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley2024-12-06Y2100%100%0%57.00
2024 ARCADIA at GT2024-12-06Y5100%0%40%117.20
2024 ARCADIA at BU2024-12-06Y683%17%0%103.40
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick2024-12-06Y4100%0%25%134.25
2024 ARCADIA at Duke2024-12-06Y3100%0%0%94.67