Question
The spirit Anoa warns of “predators” and “destroyers” who bring slavery for two thousand of these time periods in an Ayi Kwei Armah novel. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these time periods. The story of Mustafa Sa’eed torments the unnamed narrator of a Tayeb Salih novel titled for one of these time periods “of Migration to the North.”
ANSWER: seasons [accept mawsim or mawasim; accept Two Thousand Seasons or Season of Migration to the North or Mawsim al-Hijrah ilâ al-Shamâl]
[10h] Anti-colonial themes appear 2016 novel by Yaa Gyasi about how Esi and her descendants grow up in America away from her half-sister Effia’s family in Ghana due to slavery.
ANSWER: Homegoing
[10e] Pre-colonial Umuofia is described as “the terror of their neighbors, before the white men came” in No Longer at Ease, the sequel to this author’s novel Things Fall Apart.
ANSWER: Chinua Achebe [or Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe]
<Ganon Evans, Literature - World and Miscellaneous> ~23715~ <Editor: Jim Fan>
Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 PACE NSC | 06/08/2024 | Y | 36 | 16.39 | 94% | 47% | 22% |