Question
This character is affectionately called a “cochon de lait” (“ko-SHAWN duh lay”) and praised for his legs, hands, and “real fingernails” while his grandmother “scans [him] narrowly.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Identify this character, whose apparent similarity to a “quadroon” boy fanning him with peacock feathers causes his father Armand to expel him and his mother from their home.
ANSWER: Désirée’s baby [accept the infant or child or son of Désirée Valmondé]
[10e] This author explored race relations in Creole Louisiana in her story “Désirée’s Baby.” This author also wrote The Awakening.
ANSWER: Kate Chopin [or Katherine O’Flaherty]
[10h] “A Story of Creole Life” is the subtitle of this George Washington Cable novel that explores the relationship between Honoré and his quadroon half-brother, also named Honoré.
ANSWER: The Grandissimes [or The Grandissimes: a Story of Creole Life]
<Chicago A, American Literature>
Summary
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 100% | 17% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 83% | 33% | 0% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 33% | 17% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 10.00 | 90% | 10% | 0% |
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| Cambridge B | Cambridge C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cambridge D | Southampton B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Oxford C | Cambridge E | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Imperial A | LSE | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU C | Southampton A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Oxford A | Cambridge A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Oxford B | Imperial B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Manchester | Sheffield | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Bristol | Warwick A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Durham | Warwick B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |