Anton Chekhov - 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges

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


UCLA E	Claremont B	10	0	0	10
UCLA A	Claremont C	10	0	10	20
UCLA D	Claremont A	10	0	0	10
UCSD	UCLA C	10	0	0	10
USC	UCLA B	10	10	10	30