Question
The narrator of a story recalls living in one of these objects between decks in a steamer, where he learns to uncork and drink from a schnapps bottle. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these objects contrasted with the “way of humanity” in “A Report to an Academy.” A character in a different story leans on two young ladies as he is forced to leave one of these objects every 40 days.
ANSWER: cages [or Käfige; prompt on synonyms or broader terms like enclosures or pens or coops]
[10e] Max Weber’s “iron cage” is often compared to the vision of bureaucracy in works by this author of “A Report to an Academy” and “The Hunger Artist.”
ANSWER: Franz Kafka [or František Kafka]
[10h] The most popular of Kafka’s 109 Zürau Aphorisms imagines a cage performing this specific action. This action titles a 2024 anthology of “Kafkaesque stories” by writers like Yiyun Li and Ali Smith.
ANSWER: going in search of a bird [or searching for a bird; or “Ein Käfigging einen Vogel suchen”; accept A Cage Went in Search of a Bird; accept looking or synonyms in place of “searching”; prompt on searching or synonyms by asking “for what?”]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 22 | 14.55 | 100% | 46% | 0% |
Data
| Michigan | Berkeley A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Berkeley B | Florida | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Brown | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago D | Toronto B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Claremont Colleges | Ottawa | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Cornell A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Harvard | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| McGill | Illinois | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Virginia | Iowa State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota B | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Indiana | Kentucky | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago B | NYU | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Waterloo | North Carolina B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Northwestern | Maryland | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn | Yale B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Duke | Rutgers | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford | Truman State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas | Yale A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | Toronto A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt | Purdue | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL B | Arizona State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |