Question

The exemplar of “irritation” in Sianne Ngai’s Ugly Feelings is this novel’s protagonist, who tells herself that she isn’t a “jungle creature” while feeling “drugged” by the music at a nightclub. While staying at the YWCA in Chicago, the protagonist of this novel struggles to find work due to lacking “references” but is eventually hired to accompany the lecturer Mrs. Hayes-Rore to New York. This novel’s protagonist is panged by homesickness while listening to Dvořák’s New World Symphony and angrily watches a (*) minstrel show with the painter Axel Olsen, (10[1])whose proposal she rejects while staying with her aunt in Copenhagen. (10[1]-5[1])This (-5[1])novel opens (-5[1])at Naxos, (10[1])a drab school based on the Tuskegee Institute, and ends with the protagonist’s (10[1])suffocating marriage to (10[1])Reverend Pleasant Green (10[1])in the Deep South. For 10 points, Helga Crane fails to find happiness in Harlem in what novel that launched Nella Larsen’s (10[1])career? (10[1]-5[1])■END■ (10[2]0[5])

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2024 Chicago Open07/28/2024Y1479%0%29%125.82

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Caleb KendrickWe Need New NamesA Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence14610
Jorrest WeintraubThe Jeam TeamFirst Cause, First Cause, make me young!146-5
Anderson WangI’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open)BHSU B1470
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Isaac Kirk-DavidoffFirst Cause, First Cause, make me young!The Jeam Team1470
Mike CheyneThe Oldest Men in the WorldCharlotte's Moderately Successful Team14710
John MarvinThere are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to seeRead slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A1470
Eric BobrowRead slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: AThere are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see1470
Stephen LiuLisan al-QuibGalvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer14810