Question

Despite being unable to read, Vern and her best friend Lucy memorize this novel in Rivers Solomon’s novel Sorrowland. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this novel in which David has a disastrous gay affair with an Italian bartender in Paris, despite his engagement to his fiancée Hella.
ANSWER: Giovanni’s Room (by James Baldwin)
[10h] The scientific experiments on an all-Black cult in Sorrowland were partially inspired by the Tuskegee Institute, which also inspired this novel’s depiction of a Black school in Naxos. This novel chronicles Helga Crane’s life in Harlem, Copenhagen, and Alabama.
ANSWER: Quicksand (by Nella Larsen)
[10e] In Sorrowland, Vern’s mother describes the cult as “more bountiful than the one in” this author’s novel Paradise. Sethe (“SETH-uh”) is haunted by her dead child in this author’s novel Beloved.
ANSWER: Toni Morrison [or Chloe Anthony Wofford or Chloe Ardelia Wofford]
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