Suppose a player buzzes in at the (*) mark. Judge the acceptability of the following answers:Hypothetical Tossup wrote:One of this author's novels contains a character who refers to his mother as "a fish." That character, Vardaman, is the youngest of the (*) Bundren children. Another novel features Dilsey the cook, as well as Benjy, Caddy, Jason, and Quentin (@) Compson. For 10 points, name this author of As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury.
A. "Faulkner, As I Lay Dying."
B. "Faulkner, Sound and the Fury."
C. "Faulkner, A Rose for Emily."
Suppose a player buzzes in at the (@) mark. Judge the acceptability of the following answers:
A. "Faulkner, As I Lay Dying."
B. "Faulkner, Sound and the Fury."
C. "Faulkner, A Rose for Emily."
All three major rule sets (NAQT, PACE, HSAPQ/ACF) contain a creator-creation rule, stating that a "blitz" consisting of a creator and a work he/she clearly created is acceptable if (a) the correct answer is either the creator or creation and (b) "the link between creator and created work [is] obvious" (NAQT) or "the [two] items are correctly related" (PACE and HSAPQ/ACF).
Under my unadorned reading of the rules, all three answers are acceptable at both marked points in the question, even answer C which refers to a work that is not even mentioned in the question! Thoughts?