Bonus
Description acceptable. In a short story titled for this practice, Jack writes letters to his mother explaining his use of it. For 10 points each:
[10h] Identify this practice which Irene Redfield resents Clare Kendry for being able to perform in a 1920 Nella Larsen novel named for it. An “autobiography” by James Weldon Johnson depicts an anonymous ragtime player undertaking this practice.
ANSWER: passing as white [accept descriptions of being seen as white; or hiding one’s race; accept becoming an Ex-Colored man] (James Weldon Johnson wrote “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.”)
[10m] Jack appears in this author’s short story “Passing” from his collection “The Ways Of White Folk.” In one poem, this author questions if a phenomenon “[stinks] like rotten meat” and asks “ Or does it explode?”
ANSWER: Langston Hughes [or James Mercer Langston Hughes]
[10e] Hughes asks about a “dream deferred” in a poem titled for this African-American neighbourhood of New York City. Both Larsen and Hughes were prominent figures in this neighborhood's namesake 1920s “Renaissance.”
ANSWER: Harlem [accept Harlem Renaissance]
<Editors, American Literature>
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 106 | 17.74 | 100% | 59% | 19% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Binghamton C | ESF | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Cornell C | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Cornell D | Binghamton B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
| RIT A | Binghamton A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| RIT B | Cornell A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK (North) | UK | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| UK (South) | UK | Y | 8 | 11.25 | 100% | 13% | 0% |
| Southern California | US | Y | 7 | 17.14 | 100% | 71% | 0% |
| Eastern Canada (2) | US | Y | 9 | 18.89 | 100% | 56% | 33% |
| Great Lakes | US | Y | 12 | 19.17 | 100% | 58% | 33% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 67% | 17% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 12 | 15.83 | 100% | 42% | 17% |
| Midwest | US | Y | 9 | 18.89 | 100% | 78% | 11% |
| Northeast | US | Y | 12 | 21.67 | 100% | 83% | 33% |
| Pacific | US | Y | 9 | 16.67 | 100% | 44% | 22% |
| Southeast | US | Y | 12 | 20.83 | 100% | 92% | 17% |
| Upstate NY | US | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 60% | 20% |