Question
In a story by this author, the Northerner John narrates a frame narrative about his interactions with the freed Black man Uncle Julius. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author of “Po' Sandy.” This African American author wrote about Uncle Julius McAdoo, who warns of a curse on a plant, in his story “The Goophered Grapevine,” which appears in his The Conjure Woman.
ANSWER: Charles Chesnutt [or Charles Waddell Chesnutt]
[10e] In Chesnutt's story “Mars Jeem's Nightmare,” John tells McAdoo his grandson can no longer work at one of these places. In Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, Caesar and Cora escape from working at one of these places.
ANSWER: slave plantations
[10h] In this Chesnutt story, the Blue Veins Society member Mr. Ryder plans to marry a fellow mulatto woman, though he meets ‘Liza Jane in a search for Sam Taylor.
ANSWER: “The Wife of His Youth”
<Noah Sheidlower, American Literature>
Summary
| 2024 Penn Bowl Playtest | 10/12/2024 | Y | 4 | 22.50 | 100% | 100% | 25% |
Data
| Oh you like geography? Name every Forrest. | Ill-Advised Buzz | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Statler and Waldorfesque Former Penn Bowl Editors | Why the Kremlin Hates Bananas | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| TOAD | Khalil v Carbolic Shisha Ball Co | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| bruh | we jopping | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |