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Question

This character describes her maid’s room as a “violation of my quotation marks” that makes her a “citation of herself.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this character who, after being shocked into a mystic crisis at the sight of a cockroach she killed, puts its corpse in her mouth.

ANSWER: G.H.

[10m] The Passion According to G.H. is by this author, who depicted the turmoil of Joanna in her debut novel, Near to the Wild Heart.

ANSWER: Clarice Lispector [or Chaya Pinkhasivna Lispector]

[10e] Though born in Ukraine, Lispector primarily worked and published in this country whose literature gained renown from the works of Machado de Assis.

ANSWER: Brazil [or Federative Republic of Brazil; accept República Federativa do Brasil]

<JF, World Literature>

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	30.00	100%	100%	100%
Canada	Main Site	Y	1	0.00	0%	0%	0%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	67%	67%	67%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	11.11	44%	33%	33%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	9	17.78	89%	67%	22%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	25.00	83%	83%	83%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	27.50	100%	100%	75%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	18.57	100%	57%	29%
UK	Main Site	Y	6	21.67	100%	100%	17%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	25.56	89%	89%	78%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	0.00	0%	0%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley D	10	10	10	30
Berkeley B	Stanford B	10	10	10	30
McGill A	UBC B	0	0	0	0
Stanford A	Berkeley C	10	10	10	30
Central Florida C	Central Florida B	10	10	10	30
Florida B	Florida A	0	0	0	0
Central Florida A	Florida C	10	10	10	30
William and Mary	Duke	10	10	10	30
NC State B	North Carolina B	0	0	0	0
North Carolina C	NC State A	0	0	0	0
VCU	South Carolina B	0	0	0	0
Virginia Tech A	North Carolina A	10	10	10	30
Virginia	Virginia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame A	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
Chicago C	Illinois B	0	10	10	20
Purdue B	Chicago D	0	0	10	10
Chicago E	Notre Dame B	0	0	0	0
Indiana A	Illinois A	10	10	10	30
Northwestern B	Illinois C	0	0	10	10
Indiana B	Northwestern D	0	10	10	20
Indiana C	Northwestern C	0	10	10	20
Chicago A	Purdue A	10	10	10	30
Liberty C	James Madison A	0	0	0	0
Brandeis B	Bowdoin A	10	10	10	30
Brown	Bowdoin B	10	10	10	30
MIT	Brandeis A	10	10	10	30
Harvard A	Dartmouth A	10	10	10	30
Southern Connecticut State	Dartmouth B	0	0	0	0
Yale	Harvard B	10	10	10	30
Liberty A	South Carolina A	10	10	10	30
James Madison B	Liberty B	0	0	0	0
Texas A	Murray State A	10	10	10	30
Texas A&M A	Texas B	0	0	10	10
Washington B	Carleton College	10	10	10	30
Claremont	Iowa State	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech A	Minnesota A	10	10	10	30
Washington A	Missouri A	0	10	10	20
Alabama A	Tennessee B	0	10	10	20
Bruin	WashU B	10	10	10	30
Louisville A	Georgia Tech D	0	0	10	10
Louisville B	Kentucky	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech B	Mississipi State	0	0	10	10
Tennessee A	Sewanee	0	10	10	20
WashU A	Vanderbilt B	10	10	10	30
LSE	Bristol	10	10	10	30
Oxford A	Cambridge C	0	10	10	20
City St. George's	Durham	0	10	10	20
Imperial C	Edinburgh B	0	10	10	20
Oxford B	UCL	0	10	10	20
NYU A	Columbia B	10	10	10	30
Johns Hopkins A	NYU B	10	10	10	30
Johns Hopkins B	NYU C	0	0	0	0
Rutgers A	Rutgers B	10	10	10	30
Maryland C	Swarthmore	0	10	10	20
John Jay	Catholic	10	10	10	30
Maryland A	Columbia A	10	10	10	30
Columbia C	Georgetown	10	10	10	30
Maryland B	Vassar	10	10	10	30
Imperial A	Cambridge B	0	10	10	20
RIT	Cornell B	0	0	0	0
Cornell C	Binghamton A	0	0	0	0
Rochester	Binghamton B	0	0	0	0
Cornell A	Penn State	0	0	0	0