Question
A work of this type makes the narrator wish that “Gabriel Prosser and Nat Turner had killed all whitefolks in their beds” before her shame is assuaged by the song “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing.” For 10 points each:
[10h] A chapter of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings contrasts a demeaning work of what type by the white man Edward Donleavy with a joyous one by the teenager Henry Reed?
ANSWER: commencement addresses [or commencement speeches; accept graduation speeches; accept valedictory addresses or valedictorian speeches; prompt on speeches or addresses or orations]
[10e] The protagonist delivers a demeaning speech at his commencement before being forced to participate in a “Battle Royale” in this author’s novel Invisible Man.
ANSWER: Ralph Ellison
[10m] This memoir’s narrator defiantly reads his own valedictory address rather than a sanitized one by his white principal. Part II of this memoir, “The Horror and the Glory,” depicts the author’s time in Chicago’s Communist Party.
ANSWER: Black Boy (by Richard Wright)
<TM, American Literature>
Summary
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 83% | 50% | 0% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 50% | 17% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 60% | 0% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 100% | 38% | 0% |
Data
| Liberty A | Liberty B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| William & Mary | Liberty C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UNC B | UNC C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Duke | UNC D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Virginia A | Virginia Tech A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| South Carolina | Wake Forest | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |