Question
One of these two authors claimed that the other’s characters “swing like a pendulum eternally on that safe and narrow orbit” between “laughter and tears.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these two feuding authors. One of them categorized the other’s novellas, like “Down by the Riverside,” as part of a “sobbing school” that she rejected in favor of “sharpening my oyster knife” in “How it Feels to be Colored Me.”
ANSWER: Zora Neale Hurston AND Richard Wright
[10e] Hurston criticized Wright for offering the “solution” of this party. Wright negatively portrayed this party’s treatment of the journalist Ross in the second part of Black Boy.
ANSWER: Communist Party [prompt on the party]
[10h] This author of an essay about the feud also wrote the libretto for I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky. This poet addressed her bisexuality in Some of Us Did Not Die and wondered “who the hell set things up like this” in “Poem about My Rights.”
ANSWER: June Jordan
<JB, American Literature>
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BHSU B | LMM's LLM MLM | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 0% | 100% |