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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

HeardPPBE %M %H %
2115.7195%29%33%

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Chapel Hill ATantaene Animis Caelestibus Irae10101030HEM
East Chapel HillCary Academy010010E
GrimsleyChapel Hill B010010E

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
VAULT II at Georgia Tech2026-01-24✓215.00100%0%50%
Triangle Cup2026-03-13✓316.67100%33%33%
VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS2026-03-13✓210.00100%0%0%
VAULT II at UCSB2026-03-13✓514.0080%40%20%
VAULT II at MINT2026-06-19✓110.00100%0%0%
VAULT II Stanford Online2026-07-17✓818.75100%38%50%