Question
In a novel titled for one of these structures, it is revealed that the party led by Donne sailing upriver are actually dead from having drowned during their initial journey. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these structures, one of which named for a peacock titles Guyanese author Wilson Harris’ first novel. The title monarch of Aimé Césaire’s The Tragedy of King Christophe kills workers who slack off while building one of these structures.
ANSWER: palace [prompt on citadel; accept Palace of the Peacock; accept Sans-Souci Palace]
[10m] Ti Noel works on Henri-Christophe’s Sans-Souci Palace in this Alejo Carpentier novel centered on the Haitian Revolution.
ANSWER: The Kingdom of This World [or El reino de este mundo]
[10e] Fortunato joins the revolution in this country in Reinaldo Arenas’ novel Palace of the White Skunks. Alejo Carpentier grew up in this home country of poet José Martí.
ANSWER: Cuba [or Republic of Cuba; or República de Cuba]
<MM, World Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ILLIAC (Cornell) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| 2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 8 | 15.00 | 100% | 38% | 13% |
Data
| Cornell Wind | Rochester A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| RIT | Cornell Earth | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cornell Fire | Rochester B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia Ly-α | Rochester C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |