Question
This character dies amid 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]
<JF, World and Other Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at Duke | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Emory | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Imperial | Imperial | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 40% | 20% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Maryland | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA Online | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Texas | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 3.33 | 33% | 0% | 0% |
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| Michigan A | OSU B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Kenyon A | Kenyon B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Ohio State A | Michigan B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |