Question
This story begins with a character pretending to save his crush Suzanne Bledsoe from the Netherworlders. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this story in which Eber decides not to commit suicide after he witnesses a boy fall into an icy pond. This story titles a 2013 collection.
ANSWER: “Tenth of December”
[10m] Tenth of December is a collection by this author of the collections CivilWarLand in Bad Decline and Pastoralia.
ANSWER: George Saunders
[10e] Saunders won a Booker Prize for his novel titled for this historical figure “in the Bardo,” which begins with a party hosted by this president’s wife, Mary Todd.
ANSWER: Abraham Lincoln [accept Lincoln in the Bardo]
<MH, American Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ILLIAC (Cornell) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
Data
| Columbia Ly-α | RIT | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Rochester A | Cornell Fire | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cornell Earth | Cornell Wind | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Rochester B | Rochester C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |