Question
In this play, the Count of Gormas slaps Don Diègue because the latter got a job as a tutor instead of him. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this play by Pierre Corneille which was criticized by Cardinal Richelieu for breaking the three classical unities.
ANSWER: Le Cid [accept The Cid; reject “El Cid” since that is a Spanish epic poem]
[10h] Another play revolving around tutors is this author’s play A Month in the Country, which is about the handsome tutor Aleksei Belyaev. Soon after writing A Month in the Country, this author switched to long fiction and wrote the novel Rudin.
ANSWER: Ivan Turgenev [or Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev]
[10e] Madame Ranevskaya painfully recalls the drowning of her son while talking with her son’s former tutor Trofimov in this author’s play The Cherry Orchard.
ANSWER: Anton Chekhov [or Anton Pavlovich Chekhov]
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Summary
| 2023 ILLIAC (Cornell) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| 2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 100% | 38% | 0% |
Data
| Columbia Ly-α | Rochester B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cornell Earth | Rochester C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| RIT | Cornell Wind | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cornell Fire | Rochester A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |