“Diary of a Madman” - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

The memory of a laughing crowd with “green faces and protruding fangs” elicits a full-body shiver from the protagonist of this story. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this Nikolai Gogol-inspired story by Lu Xun (“shun”). This story’s protagonist reads a history book featuring the words “Benevolence,” “Righteousness,” and “Morality” as instead repeating the phrase “Eat people!”

ANSWER: “Diary of a Madman” [or “A Madman’s Diary”; or “Kuángrén Rìjì”]

[10e] “Diary of a Madman” makes use of this literary device by introducing the premise of the narrative with an introductory passage. Scheherazade’s opening narration functions as one of these devices in Arabian Nights.

ANSWER: frame story [or frame narrative; or frame tale; or sandwich narrative; or intercalation; or story within a story]

[10h] The narrator of Lu Xun’s “Diary of a Madman” believes that one of these animals gives him a dirty look because it is in on the plot to eat him, while Gogol’s madman believes that two of these animals are conversing in secret.

ANSWER: dogs

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Summary


California	Main	Y	5	22.00	100%	80%	40%
Canada	Main	Y	5	26.00	100%	80%	80%
Florida	Main	Y	7	12.86	100%	29%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	4	12.50	50%	50%	25%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	4	27.50	75%	100%	100%
Midwest	Main	Y	5	20.00	80%	80%	40%
North	Main	Y	8	26.25	88%	88%	88%
Northeast	Main	Y	4	17.50	75%	50%	50%
Overflow	Main	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
Southeast	Main	Y	7	21.43	86%	43%	86%
UK	Main	Y	4	25.00	100%	75%	75%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	5	24.00	100%	60%	80%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


Berkeley B	Berkeley C	10	10	0	20
Berkeley E	Berkeley D	10	10	10	30
Berkeley F	UCSC	0	10	0	10
Berkeley A	Stanford B	10	10	0	20
Stanford A	Stanford C	10	10	10	30
Claremont Scripps	UCLA D	10	10	10	30
UCLA B	UCLA A	10	10	0	20
UCLA C	Claremont Pitzer	10	10	10	30
USC	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	10	10	10	30
Guelph A	Carleton	10	10	0	20
McGill B	McMaster C	0	10	0	10
Toronto H	McGill C	10	10	0	20
Toronto G	Toronto A	0	10	0	10
McGill A	Toronto D	0	10	0	10
Toronto I	Western Ontario	0	10	0	10
Toronto K	McMaster B	0	10	0	10
UCSB	UCSD Vices and Virtues	0	10	10	20
UF E	FIU	0	0	0	0
FSU	UF C	0	0	0	0
UCF B	UF B	10	10	0	20
UCF A	UF A	10	10	10	30
OSU D	MSU A	10	10	10	30
OSU A	CWRU B	10	0	10	20
OSU C	OSU B	10	10	10	30
CWRU A	Pitt A	10	10	10	30
Tennessee A	Clemson A	10	10	0	20
Virginia A	Liberty A	10	10	0	20
North Carolina C	South Carolina B	10	0	0	10
Virginia B	Virginia Tech B	0	10	10	20
North Carolina A	North Carolina B	10	10	10	30
George Mason A	UMBC A	0	0	0	0
Maryland B	George Washington B	10	10	10	30
Georgetown B	Maryland D	10	10	10	30
Johns Hopkins A	George Mason B	10	10	10	30
NYU A	Maryland C	10	10	10	30
NYU B	George Washington A	10	10	10	30
Maryland A	VCU A	10	10	10	30
Georgetown A	Penn A	10	10	10	30
Columbia A	Rutgers C	10	10	10	30
Columbia B	Columbia C	0	10	0	10
Princeton A	Lehigh A	10	10	10	30
Vassar A	Swarthmore A	0	0	0	0
WashU D	SIUE	0	10	0	10
WashU A	Missouri B	10	10	0	20
Wisconsin	Macalester B	0	10	0	10
Minnesota A	Minnesota C	10	10	10	30
Carleton	St. Thomas	10	10	0	20
Dartmouth	Amherst A	0	10	10	20
Brandeis Lloyd George	Brandeis Wilson	10	10	10	30
Cornell-UG	Brown A	0	10	10	20
Bowdoin A	Tufts B	0	0	0	0
Harvard	Williams	10	10	10	30
MIT B	Brown C	0	10	10	20
Yale A	MIT A	10	10	10	30
Alberta	British Columbia D	10	10	10	30
Simon Fraser	British Columbia A	10	10	10	30
Washington A	British Columbia B	10	10	0	20
British Columbia C	Washington B	0	10	10	20
Alberta B	Arizona State A	10	10	10	30
Texas A	Arizona State B	10	10	10	30
McGill D	Iowa	10	10	10	30
Ohio	Texas B	0	10	0	10
UTD A	Tulsa	0	10	10	20
RIT B	Binghamton A	10	10	0	20