Question
Answer the following about duels in Russian literature, for 10 points each.
[10e] In this author’s novella The Duel, the Darwinian zoologist Von Koren tries to kill his nemesis. This Russian playwright also wrote The Cherry Orchard and Uncle Vanya.
ANSWER: Anton Chekhov
[10h] Alexander Pushkin’s death in a duel was lamented in “Death of a Poet”, a poem by this “Poet of the Caucasus”. Pechorin and Grushnitsky duel in this author’s novel A Hero of Our Time.
ANSWER: Mikhail Lermontov
[10m] The nihilist Bazarov leaves Marino after being wounded in a duel with Nikolai, the uncle of his friend Kirsanov, in this novel by Ivan Turgenev.
ANSWER: Fathers and Sons [or Otcy i deti or Fathers and Children]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 10.00 | 78% | 11% | 11% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 88% | 38% | 13% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 83% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 11 | 16.36 | 91% | 64% | 9% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 16.67 | 100% | 56% | 11% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 40% | 20% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 12.50 | 88% | 38% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 15.56 | 100% | 56% | 0% |
Data
| Chicago A | Illinois C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois D | Purdue C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Iowa A | WashU A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Notre Dame A | Illinois A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Notre Dame B | Northwestern B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Notre Dame C | Iowa B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Purdue A | SIUE | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Purdue B | Northwestern A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Illinois B | WashU B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |