American Pastoral - 2024 ARCADIA

Question

This novel ends in medias res during a hectic outdoor dinner party, where the protagonist has a spiteful conversation with his neighbor Marcia while his wife’s lover stabs his father in the eye. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this novel in which Nathan Zuckerman attempts to recount the life of Seymour “Swede” Levov, who discovers that his daughter Merry is the Old Rimrock bomber.

ANSWER: American Pastoral

[10h] Merry has this sort of condition, which Zuckerman implies to have motivated her turn to radicalism. In another novel, a character with this condition slits his own throat after losing his virginity to a sex worker named Candy.

ANSWER: speech impediment [accept stutter or stammer] (The other character is Billy Bibbit from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.)

[10e] American Pastoral is the first novel in this author’s American Trilogy, all of which are narrated by Zuckerman. This author also wrote Portnoy’s Complaint.

ANSWER: Philip Roth

<HG, American Literature>

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	8	11.25	50%	38%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	10.00	80%	20%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%

Data


Brandeis A	BU	0	0	0	0
Boston College B	Bowdoin B	0	0	0	0
Bowdoin A	Brandeis B	0	0	0	0
Amherst	Clark House	10	10	10	30
Harvard	Tufts A	0	0	10	10
MIT	Clark Wilson	10	0	10	20
Boston College A	Tufts B	10	10	10	30
Bowdoin C	Yale	0	0	0	0
North Carolina A	Virginia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech C	North Carolina B	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech A	South Carolina	10	10	10	30
Squidward Community College	Missouri	10	0	10	20
Truman	WashU	10	0	10	20
Social credit go vroom	ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	0	0	10	10
In the Mood for Buzz	bingy academy	10	0	10	20
Madmen and Specialists	she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	10	0	10	20
Paddington in Peru (2024)	The cult of SGA	10	0	10	20
Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans	Old and Young	10	0	10	20
Maryland	Penn State	10	0	10	20
Pitt	RIT	10	0	10	20
UCF B	Florida Tech	0	0	10	10
UF B	UF C	0	0	0	0
Valencia	USF	0	0	10	10
Berkeley A	Berkeley B	10	10	10	30
Berkeley Past	Stanford	10	0	10	20
Carleton A	McGill A	0	0	10	10
Toronto Metropolitan A	McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	0	0	10	10
Toronto A	Toronto B	10	0	10	20
Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	Waterloo Cloze	0	0	10	10
Waterloo Basic	Waterloo Aspidistra	10	0	10	20
UCF A	UF A	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Mississippi State	10	0	10	20
Johns Creek	Georgia Tech D	0	0	10	10
Innovation Academy A	Georgia Tech C	0	0	10	10
Purdue B	Chicago A	0	0	10	10
Illinois Blue	Notre Dame	10	0	10	20
Chicago B	Purdue A	0	0	10	10
Illinois Orange	SIUE	10	0	10	20
Innovation Academy B	Milton	0	0	10	10
Imperial B	Cambridge B	0	0	10	10
Warwick C	LSE A	0	0	0	0
Cambridge A	Southampton	10	0	10	20
Imperial A	Warwick A	0	0	10	10
LSE B	Warwick B	0	0	10	10
Claremont	Anderson et al.	10	0	10	20
SGV Ventures	Jason et al.	0	0	10	10
U[C]SD	ALCU	0	0	10	10
Lambert	Innovation Academy C	0	0	10	10