In this story, a foreman and an administrator are among a group of people executed in a mock bullfighting game. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this story that ends as the main character meets his son after spending years in jail and working to derail a train. This is the title story of a collection that also includes “North Pass” and “They Have Given Us the Land.”
ANSWER: “The Burning Plain” [or “El Llano en llamas”; accept “The Plain in Flames” or “The Llano in Flames”] (by Juan Rulfo)
[10m] “The Burning Plain” begins with the epigraph “Now they killed [one of these animals] / But [her offspring] remain,” taken from a popular ballad. Demetrio Macías joins a revolution after government soldiers kill one of these animals in a novel whose 1929 English translation is titled for a word derived from the name of these animals.
ANSWER: dogs [or perros or perras or perritos; accept The Underdogs] (The Underdogs is the English title of Mariano Azuela’s Los de abajo.)
[10e] The Burning Plain and The Underdogs both depict the bleakness of the 1910s revolution in this country, which is the birthplace of both Juan Rulfo and Mariano Azuela.
ANSWER: Mexico [or United Mexican States; or Estados Unidos Mexicanos]
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