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Question

Amiable With Big Teeth, a novel about a group of activists from this neighborhood, remained unpublished until 2009 when it was discovered by a graduate student at Columbia University. For 10 points each:

[10e] Claude McKay wrote about black sex workers in the titular poem from his collection titled for this neighborhood’s Shadows. A poem by Langston Hughes titled for this neighborhood asks, “what happens to a dream deferred?”

ANSWER: Harlem [accept Harlem Shadows]

[10h] This poem from Harlem Shadows tells the reader “we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack” and responds “let it not be like hogs” to this poem’s title statement.

ANSWER: “If We Must Die”

[10m] McKay also wrote a novel titled for a city in this country in which the sailor Lafala falls in love with Alima. In a James Baldwin novel set in this country, the title character strangles his boss after a gay love affair with David.

ANSWER: France [or French Republic] (The novels are Romance in Marseille and Giovanni’s Room.)

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Northern California	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
Southern California	Main	Y	6	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Florida	Main	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	7	15.71	100%	43%	14%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	10	17.00	100%	50%	20%
Upper Mid-Atlantic (1)	Main	Y	10	20.00	100%	60%	40%
Upper Mid-Atlantic (2)	Main	Y	5	20.00	100%	40%	60%
Upper Midwest	Main	Y	9	22.22	100%	89%	33%
Upper Midwest	Main	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
North	Main	Y	5	24.00	100%	100%	40%
Northeast	Main	Y	11	20.00	100%	55%	46%
Northwest	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
South Central	Main	Y	8	20.00	100%	63%	38%
Southeast	Main	Y	8	16.25	100%	38%	25%
UK	Main	Y	11	17.27	100%	73%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%

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CWRU A	MSU A	10	0	0	10
CWRU B	OSU D	10	0	0	10
CWRU C	Kenyon A	10	0	10	20
CWRU D	Kenyon B	10	0	0	10
OSU B	MSU B	10	0	10	20
OSU C	OSU A	10	10	10	30
Pitt B	Pitt C	10	0	0	10