A section describing the corpse of a soldier from this country named John Doe concludes the novel Nineteen Nineteen. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this country that titles a trilogy of novels by John Dos Passos.
ANSWER: United States of America [or USA; or America; accept U.S.A. Trilogy; accept “The Body of an American”]
[10m] Stream-of-consciousness sections throughout the trilogy are titled for the “Eye” of these objects. In a Theodore Dreiser novel, Roberta drowns in Big Bittern Lake after being struck by one of these objects.
ANSWER: cameras [accept “The Camera Eye”] (The Dreiser novel is An American Tragedy.)
[10h] Description acceptable. In Camera Eye 50, Dos Passos writes, “all right we are two nations” in response to this event. A poem written in response to this event repeatedly urges, “Let us go home, and sit in the sitting room.”
ANSWER: executions of Sacco and Vanzetti [accept descriptions like the deaths or trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti] (The poem is “Justice Denied in Massachusetts” by Edna St. Vincent Millay.)
<Yrwin Batan, American Literature>