Question
A novel in this genre by the Cherokee author “Forrest Carter” later turned out to have actually been written by Asa Earl Carter, a former speechwriter for George Wallace. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this once-ubiquitous genre of The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales. Revisionist novels in this genre like True Grit often emphasize the violence of the frontier.
ANSWER: westerns [or western fiction or western novels; accept revisionist westerns; prompt on adventure novels; prompt on historical fiction]
[10h] The identity of this author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is still unknown. This author, likely a German anarchist based in Tamaulipas, depicted the oppression of indigenous Mexicans in his Jungle novels.
ANSWER: B. Traven [accept Bruno Traven; prompt on Ret Marut with “Marut is possibly the author that used what pseudonym?”]
[10m] Many readers were surprised to learn that the Western novelist B. M. Bower was a woman with this married surname. Another author with this surname wrote about the meatpacker-turned-socialist Jurgis Rudkis.
ANSWER: Sinclair [accept Upton Sinclair; accept Bertha Muzzy Sinclair or Bertha Sinclair-Cowan; prompt on Bertha Muzzy with “What was her married surname?”] (The unnamed novel is The Jungle.)
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Summary
| 2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
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| Toronto cDNA | Toronto Sprout | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |