Question
A speech compares this character’s egocentrism to the generosity of Don Quixote. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this character created by a non-Russian author. In a story from A Sportsman’s Sketches, a man tells the narrator to call him by this character’s name after going on a long diatribe on the material greed of the upper class.
ANSWER: Prince Hamlet [accept “Hamlet of the Shchigrovsky District” or “Hamlet of Shchigrovsky Province”]
[10e] This Russian author gave the speech “Hamlet and Don Quixote” and wrote A Sportsman’s Sketches and the novel Fathers and Sons.
ANSWER: Ivan Turgenev [or Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev]
[10m] Turgenev’s reading of Hamlet also inspired the protagonist of his novel titled for this sort of person. Inspired by the Byronic hero, this two-word term denotes characters in Russian novels who defy social norms and expectations.
ANSWER: superfluous man [or líshniy chelovék; accept Diary of a Superfluous Man]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 9 | 15.56 | 89% | 44% | 22% |
Data
| Cornell C | NYU A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Vassar | NYU B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rowan A | Penn A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Princeton A | Haverford | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Bard A | Princeton B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rutgers B | Yale C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers A | Yale A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Yale B | Penn B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |