Packet M: Tossup 1

In Black Boy, an editorial against this author inspires a young Richard (10[1])Wright to obsessively read books by this author from his public library. The careers of several hardboiled fiction writers were launched by this author and George Jean Nathan’s pulp magazine Black Mask. This author lambasted the Puritan influence on writers like Mark Twain in an essay included in A Book of Prefaces. This author criticized J. Gordon Coogler’s (-5[1])poetry to open an essay that mocks the South as a cultural “Sahara (10[2])of the Bozart.” (10[7])This author of The American (10[1])Language (10[1])is the model (10[1])for the cynical (10[2])E. K. Hornbeck (10[1])in Lawrence (10[1])and Lee’s play Inherit (10[1])the Wind, which was based on an event at which this journalist (10[1])reported. (10[2]-5[4])For (-5[1])10 points, the name “Scopes Monkey Trial” was coined (10[1])by what (10[1])“Sage of Baltimore”? (10[2])■END■ (10[5]0[21])

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