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Aluísio Azevedo’s novel O Mulato brought this movement to Brazil, where Machado de Assis denounced its lurid influence on Eça de Queiróz (“AY-suh dee kay-ROSH”). For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this literary movement whose determinism was criticized by the realists Leopoldo Alas and Juan Valera. Claude Bernard’s physiology influenced its elaboration by Émile Zola.
ANSWER: naturalism [or naturalist literature; or naturalisme or naturalismo or naturalistes]
[10h] In The Pressing Question, this Spanish countess advocated a uniquely hispanophone naturalism. She adopted naturalism’s poor protagonists in The Tribune and its frank sexuality in The House of Ulloa (“oo-YO-ah”).
ANSWER: Emilia Pardo Bazán [or Emilia Pardo Bazán y de la Rúa-Figueroa; prompt on Bazán]
[10m] Zola’s Rougon-Macquart influenced Benito Pérez Galdós’s 46 National Episodes, whose first novel is mostly set in these places. Gilliatt (“gill-YAHT”) seeks an engine in one of these places in a novel written during Victor Hugo’s exile.
ANSWER: ships [or boats; accept shipwrecks; accept fleets or armadas or navy or word forms; accept decks or sterns or other parts of ships; accept galleys, galleons, steamships, or other specific ships; accept high seas or open ocean; prompt on vessels] (The unnamed novels are Trafalgar and Toilers of the Sea. Hugo was exiled to Guernsey.)
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2024 ACF Nationals2024-04-21Y2011.0065%40%5%

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RutgersArizona State0000
BrownMichigan001010
Chicago BNorth Carolina A100010
Claremont CollegesVirginia100010
PurdueCornell A0000
Cornell BVanderbilt0000
Georgia TechJohns Hopkins1001020
South CarolinaHarvard1001020
IllinoisToronto A100010
Columbia AIndiana0000
KentuckyMinnesota B001010
Berkeley AMaryland10101030
Iowa StateNYU100010
Yale ANorthwestern001010
OttawaToronto B100010
StanfordChicago A1001020
WUSTL ATexas1001020
PennWUSTL B100010
WaterlooMinnesota A100010
Columbia BYale B100010