Packet 5: Tossup 8

This author compared his birth to that of a hypothetical Israel Cohen born “under the shadow of the Temple.” Leo Marx used this author’s phrase “two kingdoms of force” to title a chapter in which he reads moments like the smashing of Huck Finn’s raft by a steamboat. This author addressed his actual nieces and “nieces in wish” in a book that quotes from The Song of Roland to help its readers “become pilgrims again.” This author contrasted (*) “thirteenth-century unity” with “twentieth-century multiplicity” in a third-person memoir that describes (10[2])a visit to the Hall of Machines (10[3])at the (10[1])1900 (10[1])Paris Exposition, (10[9])where he summed up (10[1])progress (10[1])as a clash between (10[1])“dynamo” (10[2])and (10[1])“Virgin.” (10[5]-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (10[2]-5[1])is by what historian from a presidential family, who wrote an autobiography about his (10[2])“education”? ■END■ (10[5]0[4])

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