Round 3: Tossup 2

In one chapter, members of this place’s Black community like the linenspinner Zilpah are contrasted with the Hindu idea of “the Visitor who never comes.” An author at this place imagined playing the “Ranz des Vaches” with his hoe while tilling a bean field. A woodchuck (15[1])at this place befriends an author who imagined red and black ants crying “Conquer or die!” (15[2])A book titled for this place extorts (15[1])(*) “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!” (10[2])and excludes (10[1])its author’s arrest for refusing a poll tax. (10[2])In (10[1])the 1840s, an author living on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s land next to this place (10[1])began writing (10[1])a transcendentalist memoir (10[1])on self-reliance. For 10 points, name this pond (10[2])that (10[1])titles a “Life in the Wood” by Henry David Thoreau. ■END■

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