Packet 8: Bonus 20
This character is supposedly witnessed lifting a rocking chair with one hand by a man who notes that she “acts sick, sounds sick, but she don't look sick.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this character, whose arrival is signalled with the line “a fully clothed woman walked out of the water.” A novel notes that this character’s “venom” causes a house to feel “spiteful.”
ANSWER: Beloved [accept, but DO NOT REVEAL, answers like the ghost from Beloved, the ghost of Sethe’s daughter, or Beloved from Beloved]
[10e] Beloved is the title character of a Pulitzer-winning novel by this first African-American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. This woman also wrote Song of Solomon and The Bluest Eye.
ANSWER: Toni Morrison [or Chloe Ardelia Wofford]
[10m] In the novel, Stamp Paid reveals that Sethe had committed this action to Paul D with a newspaper clipping. After seeing Schoolteacher approaching her house, Sethe commits this action in a woodshed using a handsaw.
ANSWER: infanticide [accept answers like “killing her child” or “killing Beloved”]
<Literature - American, Jamie Burchett> | VAULT II Packet 08
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 15.71 | 95% | 29% | 33% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT II at Georgia Tech | 2026-01-24 | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 0% | 50% |
| Triangle Cup | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| VAULT II at UCSB | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 40% | 20% |
| VAULT II at MINT | 2026-06-19 | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 8 | 18.75 | 100% | 38% | 50% |