Packet K: Tossup 6

A 1975 novel set in this country titled for a “cockfight” was the first written in one of its languages and is by the mononymous Frankétienne (“fron-kay-tee-EN”). In a play, this country’s king appoints the dukes (10[1])of Lemonade (10[1])and Marmalade and is haunted by the ghost of a murdered bishop. In a novel set in this country, which embodies “the marvelous real,” (10[1])a one-armed (-5[1])revolutionary (10[1]-5[1])transforms (10[1])into (10[1])a succession (10[1])of animals. (10[2]-5[2])In a 1994 novel, (10[1])a girl from this country (-5[1])named Sophie is kicked out of her Brooklyn house when she fails her mother’s virginity test. (10[1])This (10[1])country (10[1])is the setting of Alejo Carpentier’s (-5[1])The Kingdom of This World (10[2]-5[1])and the birthplace (-5[1])of an (-5[1])author (-5[1])who wrote Krik? (-5[1])Krak! and Breath, Eyes, Memory. For 10 points, name this birth country of Edwidge Danticat (0[1])(“don-tee-KAH”), who grew up speaking its French-derived Creole. (10[1])■END■ (10[11]0[1])

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