Question
In a novel by this author, the blind girl Gertrude regains her eyesight and falls in love with a pastor’s son. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author of the novel The Pastoral Symphony. In a different novel by this author, the tuberculosis-suffering protagonist watches the boy Moktir steal a pair of scissors.
ANSWER: André Gide [or André Paul Guillaume Gide] (The other novel is The Immoralist.)
[10e] A town suddenly regains its eyesight at the end of the novel Blindness written by this Portuguese author.
ANSWER: José Saramago [or José de Sousa Saramago]
[10m] In a novel by the Spanish author Benito Pérez Galdós, a boy with this first name regains his eyesight and rejects the girl Marianela. A poet with this first name wrote a collection inspired by the Spanish Civil War called Residence on Earth.
ANSWER: Pablo [accept Pablo Neruda]
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Summary
| 2023 ILLIAC (Cornell) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ILLIAC (Cornell) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 8 | 12.50 | 88% | 13% | 25% |
Data
| Cornell Wind | Rochester C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cornell Fire | Cornell Earth | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia Ly-α | Cornell Wind | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| RIT | Rochester B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rochester A | Rochester C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |