Question
In this novel’s last section, the definition of a “maggot of extinct fly that once bred in mammoths” suggests a work has an alternate narrator. A girl who talks to spirits in a barn drowns in an icy lake in this novel after her blind date rejects her. Sybil is hostile towards this novel’s protagonist, who inspires his neighbor with stories about a gay king escaping his homeland and settling in (*) New Wye. The assassin Jakob Gradus may have killed a poet in this novel due to mistaking him for the Zemblan king Charles. The line “I was the shadow of the waxwing slain” opens a poem in this novel that is erroneously commented on by Charles Kinbote. For 10 points, name this Vladimir Nabokov novel centering on the title John Shade poem. ■END■
ANSWER: Pale Fire
<Yingzhi Nyang, Literature - American - Long Fiction> ~24787~ <Editor: Chandler West>
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Summary
2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 33 | 82% | 3% | 0% | 104.07 |
Buzzes
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Lucas Ardelean | Innovation Academy A | Hinsdale Central | 46 | 0 |
Evan Schleck | Hunter A | Solon | 47 | 0 |
Tanay Bodducherla | Mira Loma | Detroit Country Day | 51 | 0 |
Vincent Wang | Irvington A | Chattahoochee B | 54 | 0 |
Grace Sun | Stevenson B | John Adams A | 54 | 0 |
Varun Venkatagiri | Innovation Academy B | Maggie Walker B | 54 | 0 |
Diane Buffet-Mogul | Mercer County | Detroit Catholic Central C | 54 | 0 |
Puna Ekka | New Brighton | Parkway West | 60 | 0 |
Cole Hartung | Kinkaid | Troy | 69 | 20 |
Nathan Wu | Plymouth | Woodland | 71 | 10 |
Kyan van Beek | Lake Highland | Norris | 81 | 10 |
Arjun Kala | University Lab | Maggie Walker A | 88 | 10 |
Rachel Ezrielev | Richard Montgomery | Rockford Auburn A | 88 | 10 |
Grace Liu | Thomas Jefferson B | Dallas County | 90 | 10 |
Sam Asplund | Winnebago | Midtown | 92 | 10 |
Bryce Cruise | Heights | Carbondale | 93 | 10 |
Camden Williams | Mexico | Winston Churchill B | 93 | 10 |
Cindy Gao | Belmont | Winston Churchill A | 93 | 10 |
Kyunghwan Lim | Chattahoochee A | Lincoln-Way East | 97 | 10 |
Kevin Yang | Stevenson A | Carl Sandburg | 99 | 10 |
Charles Young | Barrington A | Detroit Catholic Central A | 101 | 10 |
Jeffrey Xu | Johns Creek A | William Fremd | 102 | 10 |
Dominic Aiello | Detroit Catholic Central B | Belvidere | 103 | 10 |
Joy An | Choate Rosemary Hall | Maggie Walker C | 103 | 10 |
Elliott Lee | Thomas Jefferson A | Canyon Crest | 104 | 10 |
Sohum Sukhatankar | St. Mark's | Dunbar | 105 | 10 |
Rohan Navaneetha | Solon | Hunter A | 117 | 10 |
Adam Williams | Northmont A | Walter Payton | 117 | 10 |
Brodie Henry | West Point | Rockford Auburn B | 124 | 10 |
Kaitlyn Leonard | Barrington B | Johns Creek B | 125 | 10 |
Costas Pavlou | Detroit Country Day | Mira Loma | 125 | 10 |
Alan Fan | Thomas Jefferson D | Thomas Jefferson C | 127 | 0 |
Clete Reinberger | Cincinnati Hills Christian | Washington | 129 | 0 |
Keefer Lin | Chattahoochee B | Irvington A | 132 | 10 |
Bharathi Kancharla | Maggie Walker B | Innovation Academy B | 132 | 0 |
Abigail Lee | Thomas Jefferson C | Thomas Jefferson D | 132 | 10 |
Grace Nuckolls | Washington | Cincinnati Hills Christian | 132 | 0 |
Aiden Dombrosky | Hoover B | Moberly | 133 | 0 |
Owen Arneson | Parkway West | New Brighton | 133 | 10 |
Max Kolda | John Adams A | Stevenson B | 133 | 0 |
Jiming Chen | Hinsdale Central | Innovation Academy A | 133 | 10 |
Russell Dillak | Northmont B | Saint Joseph | 133 | 0 |