Packet 5: Bonus 12

Dorothy West, often called the youngest member of the Harlem Renaissance, published a novel titled for one of these events 47 years after her debut, The Living Is Easy. For 10 points each:
[10m] Frankie Addams dreams of going to Alaska with her brother in a Carson McCullers novel partly titled for what kind of event?
ANSWER: wedding [accept marriage or equivalents; accept The Member of the Wedding; accept The Wedding]
[10e] In a childhood flashback from Dorothy West’s The Wedding, Shelby is reported as missing but is not identified because she accidentally does this action, which titles Nella Larsen’s novel about the mixed-race Irene Redfield.
ANSWER: passing as white [accept Passing]
[10h] West dated the end of the Harlem Renaissance to the alcohol-fueled death of this author at age 32. This author may have fictionalized West as Emma Lou, who is excluded by light-skinned “blue vein” families in Boise, Idaho.
ANSWER: Wallace Thurman (The unnamed novel is The Blacker the Berry.)
<Indiana, American Literature> | E. Prelims 5 - Indiana + Vanderbilt + MIT

HeardPPBE %M %H %
2114.7691%48%10%

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
BruinNorthwestern A1010020ME
CambridgeNorth Carolina010010E
Chicago AGeorgetown1010020ME
Columbia BPittsburgh010010E
Georgia Tech CToronto B0000
HarvardTexas1010020ME
Illinois BMichigan010010E
Maryland AWaterloo1010020ME
Maryland BGeorgia Tech B010010E
MinnesotaToronto A1010020ME
NYU AIllinois A10101030MEH
NYU BCornell010010E
Ohio StateGeorgia Tech A010010E
Penn StatePurdue1010020ME
RutgersBritish Columbia010010E
Stanford AChicago B010010E
Stanford BBrown100010M
UC Berkeley AUCF10101030MEH
UC Berkeley BJohns Hopkins1010020ME
UCLAVirginia Tech010010E
VirginiaColumbia A010010E

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Main Site2026-04-17✓2114.7691%48%10%