Question
Six different authors contributed stories about this war to the collection Evenings at Medan (“meh-DAN”). For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this war, the setting of the story “Two Friends.” In another story, a woman rings a church bell every day until the end of this war following a violent party.
ANSWER: Franco-Prussian War (The latter story is “Mademoiselle Fifi.”)
[10e] This French author of “The Necklace” set “Mademoiselle Fifi” and “Two Friends” during the Franco-Prussian War.
ANSWER: Guy de Maupassant (“GHEE duh MOH-pah-SAWN”)
[10m] Evenings at Medan included this other Maupassant story set during the Franco-Prussian War, in which the title woman is shamed by other passengers into sleeping with a Prussian officer in order to allow the safe passage of their stagecoach.
ANSWER: “Ball of Fat” [or “Boule de Suif” or “Dumpling” or “Butterball” or “Ball of Lard”]
<Ana Pranger, Literature - European - Short Fiction> ~11907~ <Editor: Joseph Krol>
Summary
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 35 | 21.43 | 100% | 71% | 43% |
Data
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| Carl Sandburg | Maggie Walker C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Mexico | Chattahoochee A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
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| Walter Payton | Stevenson A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Washington | Stevenson B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Thomas Jefferson A | St. Mark's | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Thomas Jefferson B | Maggie Walker A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| University Lab | Dallas County | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
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| Detroit Catholic Central B | Maggie Walker B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
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| Hunter A | Barrington A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
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| Innovation Academy A | Barrington B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
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