dybbuks - 2024 ACF Regionals

Question

At the end of a novel, one of these figures tries to convince the dying prophetess Rechele (“RAY-khuh-leh”) to stay with it so that she will stay healthy. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name these figures. During a wedding in a play titled for one of these figures, Sender’s daughter tears off her wedding veil, pushes away her groom, and embraces a gravestone.

ANSWER: dybbuks [or dybbukim; prompt on spirits or ghosts]

[10e] The authors S. Ansky and Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote The Dybbuk and Satan in Goray in this language, historically used by Ashkenazi Jews.

ANSWER: Yiddish

[10m] At the end of the first act of The Dybbuk, Khonen (“KHO-nin”) collapses dead and drops one of these objects. Death narrates a novel titled for these objects in which a family shelters Max Vandenburg.

ANSWER: books [accept The Book Thief (by Markus Zusak)]

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Summary


2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley	01/27/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell	01/27/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	Y	10	17.00	100%	70%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota	01/27/2024	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska	01/27/2024	Y	6	18.33	100%	83%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State	01/27/2024	Y	2	15.00	50%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers	01/27/2024	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt	01/27/2024	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%

Data


Liberty C (DII)	JMU B (UG)	10	10	20
Maryland B (UG)	William & Mary A (UG)	10	0	10
Maryland C (DII)	Duke A (UG)	10	0	10
UNC C (UG)	JMU A (UG)	10	10	20
UNC D (DII)	UNC B (UG)	10	10	20
Virginia B (UG)	Liberty A (Grad)	10	10	20
Virginia A (UG)	Virginia C (UG)	10	10	20
Geodesic	Alabama	10	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Harding	10	10	20
Kentucky	Vanderbilt B	10	0	10
MTSU	Tennessee	10	10	20
Berkeley B	Stanford B	10	10	20
Stanford A	Berkeley C	10	10	20
Berkeley A	Stanford C	10	10	20
Arizona State	Iowa State	10	10	20
Minnesota B	Minnesota C	10	10	20
South Carolina	Vanderbilt A	10	10	20
Cornell B	Binghamton	10	10	20
Cornell A	RIT A	10	10	20
Cornell C	RIT B	10	10	20
Maryland A (Grad)	GWU A (UG)	10	10	20
Roanoke College A (DII)	GWU B (Grad)	10	10	20
Liberty B (DII)	UNC A (Grad)	10	0	10
Texas A&M B	Claremont A	10	10	20
Iowa A	UW A	10	0	10
Texas A	Iowa B	10	10	20
Rice A	Appalachian State	10	10	20
UBC A	Sorbonne	10	10	20
Michigan State A	Texas A&M A	10	10	20
Ohio State A	Michigan C	10	10	20
Ohio State B	Michigan B	0	10	10
Columbia A	John Jay	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins	Haverford	10	10	20
Columbia B	NYU A	10	10	20
Columbia C	NYU B	10	0	10
Vassar	Penn	10	10	20