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Answer the following about E. D. E. N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand, a best-selling 19th-century novel about Capitola Black, an orphan who is adopted by the rich benefactor Ira Warfield, for 10 points each.

[10m] The “hidden hand” is one of these features, which allows Capitola to inherit her father’s fortune. In a short story, Aylmer kills his wife when he attempts to remove this titular feature, which also takes the shape of a “crimson hand.”

ANSWER: birthmark [accept “The Birth-Mark”; accept freckle or mole]

[10h] Black Donald, a notorious bandit in The Hidden Hand, disguises himself as a member of this profession to sneak into Warfield’s house. R. J. Bowman has a heart attack in a short story titled for this profession.

ANSWER: traveling salesman [accept “Death of a Traveling Salesman”; accept peddler; prompt on smuggler; prompt on sailor by asking “what profession is Black Donald performing while dressed as a sailor?”]

[10e] Many of Southworth’s novels, including The Hidden Hand, were first serialized in The National Era, which also published this author’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

ANSWER: Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Northern California	Main	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Southern California	Main	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Eastern Canada	Main	Y	12	13.33	83%	42%	8%
Florida	Main	Y	6	13.33	83%	50%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	10	18.00	100%	70%	10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic (1)	Main	Y	11	17.27	100%	64%	9%
Upper Mid-Atlantic (2)	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
Lower Midwest	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Upper Midwest	Main	Y	12	17.50	100%	67%	8%
North	Main	Y	5	18.00	80%	60%	40%
Northeast	Main	Y	12	15.83	100%	42%	17%
South Central	Main	Y	8	17.50	100%	75%	0%
UK	Main	Y	14	15.71	79%	71%	7%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%

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UCF A	FSU	10	10	20
Melbourne A	UCF B	10	10	20
UF C	UF A	0	10	10
UF B	UF E	10	10	20