“The Burning Plain” - 2023 BHSU Online

Question

In this story, a foreman and an administrator are among a group of people executed in a mock bullfighting game. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this story that ends as the main character meets his son after spending years in jail and working to derail a train. This is the title story of a collection that also includes “North Pass” and “They Have Given Us the Land.”

ANSWER: “The Burning Plain” [or “El Llano en llamas”; accept “The Plain in Flames” or “The Llano in Flames”] (by Juan Rulfo)

[10m] “The Burning Plain” begins with the epigraph “Now they killed [one of these animals] / But [her offspring] remain,” taken from a popular ballad. Demetrio Macías joins a revolution after government soldiers kill one of these animals in a novel whose 1929 English translation is titled for a word derived from the name of these animals.

ANSWER: dogs [or perros or perras or perritos; accept The Underdogs] (The Underdogs is the English title of Mariano Azuela’s Los de abajo.)

[10e] The Burning Plain and The Underdogs both depict the bleakness of the 1910s revolution in this country, which is the birthplace of both Juan Rulfo and Mariano Azuela.

ANSWER: Mexico [or United Mexican States; or Estados Unidos Mexicanos]

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2023 BHSU @ Berkeley	03/18/2023	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2023 BHSU @ Maryland	03/11/2023	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Northwestern	02/25/2023	Y	6	16.67	83%	50%	33%
2023 BHSU Online	04/15/2023	Y	4	7.50	75%	0%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield	04/15/2023	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo	04/15/2023	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Yale	04/08/2023	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%

Data


Cornell C++	Cornell B-	10	10
Rollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang	Dr. Christopher Manners, MD – Samarra, Iraq	10	10
What is BH! And you are asking me? BHSU	Houston and friends	0	0
Hutto Hippos	The Enrique Trastamara Military Academy B	10	10