Question
The protagonist reveals that her work is autobiographical after her writing workshop leader criticizes its lack of realism in this author’s story “Jumping Monkey Hill.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author who created a protagonist who dates a Yale professor named Blaine, who bonds with her over their shared passion for Barack Obama.
ANSWER: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
[10h] A memoir by this other Nigerian writer recalls how their classmates of color were too intimidated to turn in any writing in their writing class. This author explored Ada’s embodiment as an ogbanje in their 2018 debut Freshwater.
ANSWER: Akwaeke Emezi (The memoir is Dear Senthuran.)
[10e] Matthew Salesses’s book on Westernized writing workshops examines this novel’s racist description of African speech. This novel is the subject of Chinua Achebe’s “An Image of Africa.”
ANSWER: Heart of Darkness (Salesses’s book is Craft in the Real World. Joseph Conrad wrote Heart of Darkness.)
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago A | Ohio State A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago B | Duke A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago C | North Carolina A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Rutgers B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech A | Maryland A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech B | Yale B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Harvard A | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Illinois A | Penn A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Iowa State A | Claremont A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Florida B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| MIT A | Minnesota A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Michigan A | Houston A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| NYU A | Imperial A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn State A | Virginia A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Purdue A | Minnesota B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| South Carolina A | McGill A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Stanford A | Cornell A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Texas A | Indiana A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Toronto A | Cornell B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley A | Northwestern A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Vanderbilt A | UC Berkeley B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| WUSTL A | Brown A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| WUSTL B | Rutgers A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale A | Florida A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |