Question
The narrator imagines these animals as statues made of Parisian plaster in the piece “Five Stories on a Single Theme.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this animal that becomes the obsession of the narrator of a novel who ponders the charcoal outlines of a dog and a naked man and woman that her former maid Janair had drawn on her wall.
ANSWER: cockroaches [or baratas; prompt on insects or arthropods]
[10e] “Five Stories on a Single Theme” is by this Brazilian author, who wrote about a woman who eats a cockroach in her novel The Passion According to G.H.
ANSWER: Clarice Lispector [or Chaya Pinkhasivna Lispector]
[10h] “Five Stories on a Single Theme” is one of Lispector’s pieces in this genre, which are collected in the 2018 book Too Much of Life. This Portuguese-language genre of short, informal writings on daily topics are published in newspaper or magazine columns.
ANSWER: crônicas [or chronicles]
<World Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 21 | 15.71 | 95% | 52% | 10% |
Data
| Johns Hopkins A | Iowa State A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Maryland A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Claremont A | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Indiana A | South Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| McGill A | WUSTL B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rutgers A | Penn A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Virginia A | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Ohio State A | UC Berkeley B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Minnesota A | Vanderbilt A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Brown A | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Duke A | Penn State A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida B | Illinois A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Georgia Tech A | Michigan A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas A | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | Rutgers B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| WUSTL A | Florida A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Northwestern A | Georgia Tech B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Stanford A | Minnesota B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Toronto A | Yale B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago B | Imperial A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | Cornell A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |