Question
In this novel, the obese Mrs. Manson Mingott has a stroke when she hears from Regina that Julius Beaufort’s bank has collapsed. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this novel in which Newland Archer tries to cheat on his fiancee May Welland with her cousin, the Polish Countess and New York socialite Ellen Olenska.
ANSWER: The Age of Innocence
[10e] This author of The Age of Innocence also wrote about Mattie Silver sledding into a tree with the title character in Ethan Frome.
ANSWER: Edith Wharton
[10h] The Age of Innocence opens with Newland watching Christine Nilsson, who has this career. Thea Kronborg moves from Moonstone to Chicago to pursue this career in a Willa Cather novel.
ANSWER: opera performance [accept Faust; prompt on show; prompt on singing or performing] (The Willa Cather novel is The Song of the Lark.)
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 6.67 | 56% | 11% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 18.75 | 100% | 63% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 8.33 | 33% | 33% | 17% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 11 | 10.00 | 36% | 36% | 27% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 12.22 | 78% | 22% | 22% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 6.00 | 60% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 88% | 50% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 17.78 | 78% | 56% | 44% |
Data
| UCLA E | Claremont B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Claremont C | UCLA A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| UCLA D | Claremont A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UCSD | UCLA C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| USC | UCLA B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |