Question
The speaker of an Ella Wilcox poem titled for this phrase claims it “lacks force” and instead “life’s best truths perverts.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this four-word phrase that is the saddest “of all words of tongue or pen” according to the title woman of the poem “Maud Muller.”
ANSWER: “it might have been”
[10m] This author wrote “It is, but hadn’t ought to be” in his own “Maud Muller” parody “Mrs. Judge Jenkins.” In a story by this author, John Oakhurst names a “damned little cuss” of a baby who dies in a flood.
ANSWER: Bret Harte [or Francis Brett Harte] (The story is “The Luck of Roaring Camp.”)
[10e] This poet wrote that John Greenleaf Whittier’s sappy and easily-parodied nostalgia was a “star” that still belongs in the “constellation” of American poetry. This Southern poet wrote the novel All the King’s Men.
ANSWER: Robert Penn Warren
<Literature - American Literature>
Summary
2024 Booster Shot (Columbia) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 8.33 | 50% | 33% | 0% |
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 7 | 14.29 | 71% | 57% | 14% |
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt) | 03/02/2024 | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 33% | 33% | 0% |
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 67% | 67% | 33% |
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 4 | 7.50 | 25% | 25% | 25% |
Data
Squidward Community College | SIUE | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Truman State | WUSTL A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
WUSTL J | WUSTL C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |