Thomas Hardy - 2025 ACF Fall

Question

In one novel by this author, Michael Henchard drunkenly auctions off his wife and child to a sailor. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this author, who fictionalized the city of Dorchester as Casterbridge in the fictional county of Wessex. In another novel by this author, the title character lies down at Stonehenge after killing her abusive husband Alec.

ANSWER: Thomas Hardy (The novels are The Mayor of Casterbridge and Tess of the D’Urbervilles.)

[10h] The Victorian author Anthony Trollope set many of his novels in this fictional county, similarly to Thomas Hardy. Those Trollope novels, such as The Warden, are part of a series titled The Chronicles of [this county].

ANSWER: Barsetshire [accept Chronicles of Barsetshire]

[10e] In this other fictional English town, Dorothea Brooke falls in love with Will Ladislaw after the death of Edward Casaubon. This English town titles that George Eliot novel, subtitled “A Study of Provincial Life.”

ANSWER: Middlemarch [or Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life]

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Northern California	Main	Y	4	15.00	75%	75%	0%
Southern California	Main	Y	7	10.00	86%	14%	0%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	14.44	78%	67%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	4	2.50	0%	25%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	11	17.27	100%	73%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	18.89	100%	78%	11%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	13.33	78%	44%	11%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	14.44	89%	56%	0%
North	Main	Y	4	7.50	75%	0%	0%
Pacific	Main	Y	8	13.75	63%	75%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	6	11.67	67%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	9.17	50%	33%	8%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
UK (South)	UK	Y	8	13.75	75%	63%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


Berkeley Archer Queen	Stanford A	10	0	10	20
Stanford B	Berkeley Little Prince	0	0	0	0
Berkeley Mighty Miner	Berkeley Boss Bandit	10	0	10	20
UCSC	Berkeley Skeleton King	10	0	10	20
USC A	Claremont C	0	0	10	10
UC Santa Barbara	Claremont B	0	0	10	10
UCLA A	Claremont A	0	0	0	0
UCLA B	UCLA C	0	0	10	10
UCSD A	UCLA E	10	0	10	20
UCSD B	UCLA F	0	0	10	10
UCLA D	USC B	0	0	10	10
Ottawa B	Carleton A	10	0	10	20
Carleton B	McGill E	0	0	10	10
McGill B	Ottawa C	10	0	10	20
Ottawa D	Ottawa A	10	0	10	20
Guelph A	Toronto A	10	0	10	20
McMaster A	Toronto C	10	0	10	20
McMaster B	Waterloo A	10	0	10	20
Toronto B	Queen's A	0	0	0	0
Waterloo C	Toronto E	0	0	10	10
Toronto F	Brock A	10	0	0	10
Toronto D	Toronto H	10	0	10	20
Toronto G	Toronto I	10	0	10	20
Waterloo B	McMaster C	0	0	10	10
Florida Tech B	Florida A	10	0	0	10
Florida B	Florida Tech A	0	0	0	0
South Florida A	UCF A	0	0	0	0
Florida State A	ERAU Daytona A	0	0	0	0
CWRU A	CWRU D	10	0	10	20
Ohio State C	Kentucky	10	0	10	20
Michigan State B	Louisville B	0	0	10	10
Ohio State B	Louisville C	10	0	10	20
Michigan B	Michigan State D	10	0	10	20
Michigan C	Michigan State C	0	0	10	10
Ohio State A	Michigan D	10	0	10	20
Michigan State A	Louisville D	10	0	10	20
CWRU B	Pittsburgh	10	0	10	20
Louisville A	WVU A	10	0	10	20
Ohio State D	WVU B	0	0	10	10
Liberty A	William & Mary A	10	0	10	20
Virginia Tech B	JMU A	10	0	10	20
NCSU A	Virginia Tech C	0	0	10	10
UNC A	NCSU B	10	10	10	30
VCU A	Tusculum A	10	0	10	20
Virginia Tech A	UNC B	10	0	10	20
UNC D	Virginia A	10	0	10	20
Duke A	William & Mary C	10	0	10	20
Liberty B	Liberty C	0	0	10	10
Maryland B	Vassar B	10	0	10	20
George Mason A	Lehigh A	10	0	10	20
Johns Hopkins	Maryland C	0	0	10	10
Princeton	NYU B	0	0	0	0
Rutgers A	Lehigh B	0	0	10	10
Rutgers B	NYU C	0	0	0	0
Maryland A	Rutgers C	10	10	10	30
Rutgers D	Rowan	0	0	10	10
Stony Brook	George Mason B	10	0	10	20
Chicago B	Purdue C	0	0	10	10
Chicago A	Illinois Urbana	0	0	0	0
Illinois Champaign	Rose-Hulman A	0	0	10	10
Iowa A	Illinois Orange	10	0	10	20
Indiana A	Iowa B	10	0	10	20
Purdue A	Indiana B	10	0	10	20
Illinois Blue	WashU Grolars	10	0	10	20
Purdue B	William Woods University A	10	0	10	20
Illinois Canada	Purdue D	0	0	10	10
Iowa State	Minnesota	0	0	10	10
Macalester	Michigan Tech	0	0	10	10
Wisconsin B	Wisconsin A	0	0	10	10
Wisconsin C	St. Thomas	0	0	0	0
Arizona State B	Washington Atlantic	10	0	10	20
Arizona State A	Washington Chum	10	0	10	20
Boise State	Washington State	0	0	0	0
British Columbia A	Alberta A	10	0	10	20
Washington Steelhead	British Columbia B	0	0	0	0
Texas	Washington Chinook	10	0	10	20
Washington Pink	British Columbia C	10	0	10	20
Alberta B	Washington Sockeye	10	0	0	10
Rose State	Kansas State A	0	0	10	10
Oklahoma	Nebraska B	10	0	10	20
Tulsa A	Harding	10	0	10	20
Tulsa B	Central Oklahoma A	0	0	0	0
Kansas State B	Murray State College B	0	0	0	0
Murray State College A	Nebraska A	10	0	10	20
Alabama A	South Carolina A	10	10	10	30
Vanderbilt C	Auburn C	0	0	0	0
Clemson A	Georgia Tech A	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech D	Clemson C	0	0	0	0
Georgia A	Tennessee B	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech E	Georgia Tech B	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Emory A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech F	Mississippi State A	0	0	10	10
Vanderbilt B	Montevallo	0	0	0	0
Sewanne	Clemson B	0	0	0	0
Tennessee Tech	Chipola College	10	0	0	10
Tennessee A	Vanderbilt A	0	0	10	10
Durham A	Durham D	10	0	10	20
Durham B	Durham C	10	0	10	20
Edinburgh B	Edinburgh D	0	0	10	10
Edinburgh A	Sheffield B	10	0	10	20
Sheffield A	York	0	0	10	10
Cambridge D	Cambridge B	10	0	10	20
LSE	Cardiff	0	0	10	10
Southampton	Imperial B	10	0	10	20
Imperial A	Imperial C	10	0	10	20
Cambridge A	Imperial D	0	0	10	10
Birmingham	Oxford	0	0	0	0
Warwick	Bristol	10	0	10	20
RIT A	Cornell D	10	0	10	20
Cambridge C	Cambridge E	10	0	0	10