Question
In a novel titled for this country, a leader of it signs a pact of non-aggression known as the “Iceland Understanding.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this country, which titles a novel in which a series of bombings are carried out by Merry, the daughter of Seymour “Swede” Levov.
ANSWER: United States of America [or USA; or America; accept American Pastoral or The Plot Against America]
[10m] American Pastoral and The Plot Against America are novels by this Jewish author, who set novels such as Portnoy’s Complaint in his home state of New Jersey.
ANSWER: Philip Roth [or Philip Milton Roth]
[10e] The events of American Pastoral unfold as America is engaged in this conflict. Tim O’Brien’s collection The Things They Carried is set during this war.
ANSWER: Vietnam War
<Literature - American Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers) | 10/14/2023 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Swarthmore B | Lehigh | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Penn | Rutgers | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia A | University of Delaware A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |