Question
In this play, a character named Swiss Cheese hides a box of money but is killed after claiming to have thrown it into a river. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this play by Bertolt Brecht set during the Thirty Years’ War about the title woman who, after failing to protect her family, hitches herself to her cart.
ANSWER: Mother Courage and Her Children [or Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder]
[10e] Brecht criticized the rise of Nazism in this country in much of his early work.
ANSWER: Germany [or Federal Republic of Germany or Deutschland; accept Weimar Republic or Weimar Germany or German Reich or German Republic]
[10h] This author also described the Thirty Years’ War in his Wallenstein trilogy. One of this author’s poems addresses the “beautiful spark of gods.”
ANSWER: Friedrich Schiller [or Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller] (The unnamed poem is Schiller’s “Ode to Joy.”)
<Literature - European Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers) | 10/14/2023 | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 83% | 50% | 0% |
Data
| Swarthmore A | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Fordham | Swarthmore B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Lehigh | University of Delaware B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Delaware A | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU C | NYU B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Princeton | Penn | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |