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Question

An author with this first name tells the addressee, “I love you for your brownness / and the rounded darkness of your breast” in the poem “To a Dark Girl.” For 10 points each:

[10e] Give this first name of a Harlem Renaissance poet with the surname Bennett. Another poet with this first name created a group of pool players who exclaim, “We / Jazz June. We / Die soon.” in “We Real Cool.”

ANSWER: Gwendolyn [accept Gwendolyn Bennett; accept Gwendolyn Brooks or Gwen Brooks]

[10h] The narrator wishes, “I want to see the slim palm trees / pulling at the clouds / with little pointed fingers” in a Gwendolyn Bennett poem with this title. Another poem with this title repeats the question, “what is Africa to me?”

ANSWER: “Heritage” (The other poem is by Countee Cullen.)

[10m] Bennett contributed the story “Wedding Day” to a one-issue magazine titled for this thing. This thing titles a book that recounts a talk with Elijah Muhammad in the section “Letter from a Region in my Mind.”

ANSWER: fire [accept Fire!! or The Fire Next Time]

<HG, American Literature>

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Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	33%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	21.67	100%	83%	33%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	5	8.00	60%	20%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	60%	40%	20%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	4	15.00	75%	50%	25%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	0%	50%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	13.75	75%	38%	25%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	3.33	33%	0%	0%

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Texas A	TAMU	10	0	0	10