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Question

A chicken farmer is scammed into selling his farm to go to college in Cyprus in a novel narrated by one of these beings titled An Orchestra of Minorities. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this sort of being that “says yes also” when a man “says yes,” per a proverb repeated in another novel. That novel’s author translated his own first name as “may [one of these beings] fight for me.”

ANSWER: chi [prompt on personal gods] (An Orchestra of Minorities is by Chigozie Obioma.)

[10e] Chinua Achebe wrote “Chi in Igbo Cosmology” and called chi “personal gods” in this novel, the first of three he set in Umuofia.

ANSWER: Things Fall Apart

[10m] Nnu Ego dreams of her chi handing her a baby by the banks of a stream in this Igbo author’s novel The Joys of Motherhood. This “feminist with a small f” fictionalized her life in London in Second Class Citizen.

ANSWER: Buchi Emecheta [or Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta]

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Data

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total
Berkeley A	Columbia B	0	10	0	10
Brown	Illinois	0	10	0	10
Chicago D	North Carolina B	0	10	0	10
Columbia A	Minnesota A	10	10	0	20
Cornell B	South Carolina	0	10	0	10
Florida	Toronto A	0	10	0	10
Harvard	Minnesota B	0	10	0	10
Indiana	Virginia	0	10	0	10
Iowa State	Berkeley B	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins	Chicago B	0	10	0	10
Kentucky	North Carolina A	0	10	10	20
McGill	Claremont Colleges	0	10	0	10
Michigan	Toronto B	0	10	0	10
Northwestern	Penn	0	10	0	10
Texas	Georgia Tech	0	10	0	10
Truman State	Yale B	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt	Maryland	0	10	0	10
WUSTL A	Rutgers	0	10	0	10
Waterloo	Cornell A	0	10	10	20
Yale A	Arizona State	0	10	0	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	Heard	PPB	Easy %	Medium %	Hard %
2024 ACF Nationals	04/21/2024	Y	20	11.50	100%	10%	5%