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Packet 8: Bonus 16

A poem in this form “doubt[s] not God is good,” but wonders “What awful brain compels His awful hand.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this form of the poems “Yet Do I Marvel” by Countee Cullen and “If We Must Die” by Claude McKay.
ANSWER: sonnet
[10e] Cullen and McKay were poets of this African-American cultural movement centered in a New York City neighborhood.
ANSWER: Harlem Renaissance [accept New Negro Movement]
[10m] The “curious thing” at which Cullen marvels in “Yet I Do Marvel” is that God “make[s] a poet black, and bid him [perform this action].” Langston Hughes wrote “I, too” perform this action to “America.”
ANSWER: sing [accept verb forms; accept “I, too, sing America.”]
<Poetry — Sarah Benner> | SHOW-ME Four Packet 8

HeardPPBE %M %H %
2516.8088%44%36%

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
DeWitt BChelsea1010020HE
Detroit Catholic Central AWilliamston0101020EM
Detroit Country Day BHillsdale Academy C1010020HE
Grand LedgeDeWitt A010010E
Hillsdale Academy BHolt0000
New Boston HuronTraverse City Central B010010E
New Buffalo BColdwater0000
Okemos ADetroit Catholic Central B10101030HEM
Okemos BDetroit Country Day A10101030HEM
Rockford BNew Buffalo A0101020EM
Traverse City Central AHillsdale Academy A1010020HE
Troy AHillsdale Academy D1010020HE
U of D JesuitTroy B010010E
Utica AcademyDetroit Catholic Central C010010E
White Cloud ARockford A010010E
White Cloud BTaylor0000

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Rube Goldberg XIX11/20/2025✓1614.3881%25%38%
SHOW-ME Four Nationwide HS11/20/2025✓520.00100%80%20%
SPOOKY IX11/20/2025✓422.50100%75%50%