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Debi Roy, who pioneered “image jumping” and “logical breaks,” was a member of the Hungryalist Quartet of poets who wrote in this language. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this language used by Rabindranath Tagore to write two national anthems, including India’s “Jana Gana Mana.”

ANSWER: Bengali [or Bangla]

[10m] Falguni Ray’s poem “Coming Back to Verbs” describes singing for the death of Tagore and looting rice from one of these objects. The speaker of a Tagore poem titled for a golden one of these objects asks it to “take away [his] golden paddy” and describes trees on a riverbank “smearing shadows like ink.”

ANSWER: boats [or tori; accept “The Golden Boat” or “Sonar Tori”]

[10h] In a poem to this man, Tagore wrote of “cunning craftsman” and people “shouting to the soldiers, ‘Strike!’” The speaker addresses Shubha (“SHOO-bah”) in a Malay Roychoudhury (“roy-CHOW-doo-ree”) poem that begins “Oh I’ll die I’ll die I’ll die” titled “Stark Electric [this man].”

ANSWER: Jesus Christ [or Jesus Christ; accept “Stark Electric Jesus”; accept Son of Man or “To Christ, the Son of Man”; prompt on “Terrific Electric Carpenter”]

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Southern California	Main	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
Eastern Canada	Main	Y	13	12.31	92%	15%	15%
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Great Lakes	Main	Y	7	14.29	57%	43%	43%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	10	7.00	50%	20%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic (1)	Main	Y	10	12.00	70%	40%	10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic (2)	Main	Y	5	6.00	40%	0%	20%
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Northwest	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	0%	25%
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Southeast	Main	Y	8	13.75	75%	50%	13%
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Upstate NY	Main	Y	4	7.50	75%	0%	0%

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