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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Columbia J (DII)Columbia B100010
Rutgers A (UG)Fordham A1001020
Maryland A (DII)Penn B (DII)1001020
Penn A (DII)NYU A (UG)1001020
NYU BMaryland B (DII)100010
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Lehigh B (DII)Rowan A (DII)0000
Rutgers BBard A (UG)100010