Packet L: Bonus 17
In John Dos Passos’s novel Three Soldiers, Andrews thinks of a poem about this man after faking his identity and briefly titles a song about him “Arbeit und Rhythmus.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Julia Ward Howe adopted a soldiers’ song about what man into “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”? That pro-abolition song claims that this man’s “soul is marching on” even as his body “lies a-mouldering in the grave.”
ANSWER: John Brown
[10m] This author depicted the Civil War in his 1928 epic poem John Brown’s Body. The line “bury my heart at Wounded Knee” comes from this author’s poem “American Names.”
ANSWER: Stephen Vincent Benét
[10h] This author depicted John Brown “hanging from the beam, slowly swaying” in the poem “The Portent.” A poem [emphasize] about this author claims that he saw “the dice of drowned men’s bones… bequeath an embassy.”
ANSWER: Herman Melville [accept “At Melville’s Tomb” (by Hart Crane)]
<Harvard A, American Literature> | Packet L - Harvard A, McGill A, Arizona State A, Georgia Tech B, Toronto D, Georgia Tech D
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 14.05 | 89% | 38% | 14% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown | Dartmouth A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| MIT | Harvard B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Yale | Brandeis B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Lakes | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Midwest | Main Site | ✓ | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Northeast | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Southeast | Main Site | ✓ | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 17% | 17% |
| UK | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 8.75 | 63% | 13% | 13% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 5 | 18.00 | 80% | 80% | 20% |