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]
<CM, American Literature>
Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 8 | 15.00 | 88% | 63% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 6 | 35.00 | 133% | 117% | 100% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 20.00 | 100% | 83% | 17% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 22.50 | 100% | 75% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
Data
| Pitt | Maryland | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn State | RIT | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |