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One of these animals is called “Fierce consciousness joined with final / Disinterestedness” in a poem that Charles Taylor compares with the novels of Cormac McCarthy in A Secular Age. For 10 points each:
[10m] Robinson Jeffers named a stone tower after what animal? The speaker of a Jeffers poem claims, “I’d sooner, except the penalties, kill a man than” one of these animals.
ANSWER: hawks [accept falcons; accept “Hurt Hawks”; accept “Rock and Hawk”; prompt on birds or raptors]
[10h] Jeffers built Hawk Tower by his seaside Tor House in this city. This city shares its name with the title feature of a Jeffers poem that states “We must unhumanize our views a little.”
ANSWER: Carmel, California [or Carmel-by-the-Sea; accept “Carmel Point”]
[10e] Jeffers calls God a hawk with “a bloody beak and harsh talons” in The Double Axe, which was censored for opposing entry into this conflict. A W. H. Auden poem about this conflict states “we must love one another or die.”
ANSWER: World War II [or WWII; or the Second World War] (The poem is Auden’s “September 1, 1939.”)
<Waterloo, American Literature> | A. Prelims 1 - Waterloo + Toronto A + Georgia Tech B

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British ColumbiaVirginia1001020ME
BrownVanderbilt001010E
BruinToronto B1001020ME
CambridgeRutgers1001020ME
Chicago AHarvard1001020ME
Columbia AUC Berkeley A001010E
Columbia BMIT0101020HE
CornellPittsburgh0000
Georgia Tech AGeorgetown001010E
Georgia Tech CChicago B001010E
Illinois AUC Berkeley B1001020ME
IndianaMaryland A10101030MHE
Johns HopkinsNYU A10101030MHE
MinnesotaMaryland B001010E
Northwestern AMichigan001010E
Northwestern BStanford B001010E
PurdueVirginia Tech001010E
Stanford AIllinois B10101030MHE
TexasOhio State1001020ME
UCFNorth Carolina1001020ME
UCLAPenn State1001020ME
WashUSwarthmore001010E

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