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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Summary
| 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
| Magisters Ludi | Broken Imperial Nomads | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Oxford Hornets | Buzzers Karamazov | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |