Question
This character dies in the midst of his fixation on creating his namesake “poultice” as a panacea and ultimately assesses his life as slightly positive because he didn’t have any children. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this character who, after his death, dedicates his memoirs to “the worm who first gnawed on the cold flesh of my corpse.”
ANSWER: Bras Cubas [accept The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas]
[10e] The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, through its absurd central narrator, served as a parody and criticism of the society, culture, and philosophies of this home country of Machado de Assis.
ANSWER: Brazil [or Federative Republic of Brazil or República Federativa do Brasil]
[10h] In The Posthumous Memoirs, recurring Machado de Assis character Quincas Borba expounds upon this philosophical system, which describes the belief in a figure for whom “the same man is distributed in all men.”
ANSWER: Humanitism [accept Humanitas]
Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 33% | 33% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| Stanford A | Berkeley A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |