Question

A poet from this country described cheerfully confronting Charon on the River Styx “like a scandal” in one poem and wrote the collection Tongues of Diamond. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this home country of Juana de Ibarbourou. The author of The Truce and the verse novel Juan Ángel’s Birthday, Mario Benedetti, is also from this country.
ANSWER: Uruguay [or Oriental Republic of Uruguay; or Eastern Republic of Uruguay; or República Oriental del Uruguay]
[10e] After contracting phlebitis in Mexico, this author of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair briefly moved to Uruguay with his nurse Matilde Urrutia.
ANSWER: Pablo Neruda [or Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto]
[10m] This Uruguayan-born author of Jungle Tales wrote about four brothers who kill their sister in the story “The Decapitated Chicken,” and a story in which Alicia is killed by the title bloodsucking “Feather Pillow.”
ANSWER: Horacio Quiroga [or Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza]
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Berkeley BBerkeley A0101020
Stanford AStanford C0101020
Stanford BBerkeley C0101020
Cornell ABinghamton0101020
Cornell BCornell C0101020
RIT BRIT A010010
Virginia B (UG)Duke A (UG)010010
William & Mary A (UG)GWU B (Grad)0000
Virginia C (UG)JMU A (UG)010010
Liberty A (Grad)Maryland C (DII)010010
Virginia A (UG)Liberty B (DII)0101020
Maryland A (Grad)Liberty C (DII)10101030
Maryland B (UG)Roanoke College A (DII)0101020
UNC B (UG)JMU B (UG)010010
GWU A (UG)UNC D (DII)010010
Iowa StateMinnesota B0101020
Arizona StateMinnesota C0101020
KenyonCedarville010010
Michigan AMichigan C0101020
Ohio State AOhio State B010010
Columbia ANYU B10101030
Columbia CHaverford010010
NYU AJohn Jay0101020
PennColumbia B0101020
RowanVassar010010
BristolImperial A010010
Cambridge AOxford C010010
EdinburghCambridge C0101020
Oxford BImperial B010010
Oxford AKCL10101030
KielCambridge B010010
SheffieldDurham A010010
WarwickDurham B010010
MTSUAlabama10101030
GeodesicGeorgia Tech B0101020
Vanderbilt AHarding010010
South CarolinaTennessee0101020
Georgia Tech AVanderbilt B0101020
Brandeis ABoston University010010
Dartmouth ABrandeis B010010
Yale AHarvard B10101030