Question
The title story of a collection by this author follows a revolutionary who dies by jumping into a furnace while trying to escape a labor camp. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Serbian author of the short story collection A Tomb for Boris Davidovich.
ANSWER: Danilo Kiš [or Dániel Kiss]
[10e] The title story of A Tomb for Boris Davidovich depicts the terror during the reign of this leader. Alexander Solzhenitsyn was sent to a gulag for criticizing this Georgian-born Soviet leader.
ANSWER: Joseph Stalin [or Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin; or Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili]
[10m] A story from A Tomb for Boris Davidovich describes Verschoyle’s actions in this conflict. The protagonist unknowingly reveals his allies’ location in “The Wall,” a story by a different author set during this conflict.
ANSWER: Spanish Civil War (“The Wall” is by Jean-Paul Sartre.)
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Summary
| 2023 ILLIAC (Cornell) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| WUSTL | Missouri | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |