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After taking a little bit of this stuff with him for luck, a man is slashed in the face with a razor while playing dice with Double-Ugly to win back money he stole from the protagonist. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this stuff. After seeing a “mule-talker” named Walter touch this stuff, a jealous future mayor demands that this stuff never be exposed in his general store.
ANSWER: Janie Crawford’s hair [or the hair of Janie Crawford; prompt on hair by asking “Whose hair?”]
[10e] Janie Crawford combs her hair while recalling killing her third husband, “Tea Cake” Woods, in the closing pages of this novel by Zora Neale Hurston.
ANSWER: Their Eyes Were Watching God
[10m] A widow named Teacake Magee is a potential love interest for the mentally disabled Daniel in this author’s novella The Ponder Heart. Mike Fink meets the title character of a novella by this author that resets a Brothers Grimm fairy tale in the American South.
ANSWER: Eudora Welty [or Eudora Alice Welty] (The novella is The Robber Bridegroom.)
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