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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

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
BirminghamUCL0000
Cambridge ACambridge B100010E
CardiffCambridge C100010E
LSESouthampton A10101030EMH
ManchesterBristol0000
Oxford AEdinburgh A100010E
Oxford CCity St. George's0000
Warwick AImperial A100010E

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TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Great LakesMain Site✓420.00100%75%25%
Lower Mid-AtlanticMain Site✓417.50100%50%25%
Lower Mid-AtlanticMain Site✓110.00100%0%0%
MidwestMain Site✓615.00100%50%0%
NortheastMain Site✓310.00100%0%0%
SoutheastMain Site✓613.33100%17%17%
UKMain Site✓88.7563%13%13%
Upper Mid-AtlanticMain Site✓518.0080%80%20%