Question
For 10 points each, answer some questions about terrorist attacks in works by ethnically Indian authors from Canada.
[10h] The radical terrorist Sukhwinder kills the protagonist’s husband Prakash in this novel by Bharati Mukherjee.
ANSWER: Jasmine
[10m] Bharati Mukherjee also wrote the story “The Management of Grief,” in which Shaila’s family dies in one of these events caused by Sikh terrorists. At the beginning of a novel by a different author, two characters turn into an angel and demon during one of these events.
ANSWER: plane crash [accept answers relating to a plane being shot down; prompt on bombing] (The other novel is The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie.)
[10e] In the novel A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, Maneck Kolah returns to India and sees the widespread killing of Sikhs after two Sikh guards assassinated this Indian Prime Minister.
ANSWER: Indira Gandhi [or Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi; prompt on Gandhi or Nehru]
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Summary
| 2023 ILLIAC (Cornell) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 100% | 63% | 0% |
Data
| Purdue C | Chicago A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| SIUE A | Chicago D | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago B | WUSTL | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| SIUE B | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Michigan B | Ohio State C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Missouri | Purdue A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Ohio State A | Purdue B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Michigan A | Ohio State B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |