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This condition afflicts the narrator’s mother Adele after she emigrates from Trinidad in David Chariandy’s novel Soucouyant (“soo-koo-YAHN”). For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this condition that afflicts Nancy, who seeks help in the story “In Sight of the Lake.” Grant gives Fiona a book on her mother’s native Iceland after she develops this condition in “The Bear Came Over the Mountain.”
ANSWER: dementia [accept Alzheimer’s disease, AD, senility, senile dementia, frontotemporal dementia, FTD, or Lewy body dementia; prompt on memory loss, forgetting, forgetfulness, amnesia, amnesiac, or obliviousness; prompt on old age; aging, getting old, elderly, senescence, or equivalents] (Alice Munro wrote both stories.)
[10h] David’s aging mother forgets to turn off the stove in this Canadian author’s story “In the Fall” from Island. Grandparents’ memories of Gaelic culture on Cape Breton punctuate this author’s novel No Great Mischief.
ANSWER: Alistair MacLeod (“mac-CLOUD”)
[10e] MacLeod (“mac-CLOUD”) was on the jury that awarded the Giller Prize to Anil’s Ghost, a novel by this Sri Lankan-born author who portrayed Almásy’s (“ALL-mah-shee’s”) amnesia after a plane crash in The English Patient.
ANSWER: Michael Ondaatje (“on-DAH-chee”) [or Philip Michael Ondaatje]
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BrownMcGill001010
Minnesota AChicago C1001020
Columbia AClaremont Colleges001010
Columbia BMichigan1001020
Cornell AToronto B1001020
RutgersHarvard001010
IllinoisOttawa1001020
IndianaFlorida1001020
Toronto AKentucky1001020
Minnesota BDuke1001020
NYUJohns Hopkins1001020
Berkeley ANorth Carolina B1001020
StanfordNorthwestern1001020
PennMaryland001010
PurdueTruman State1001020
Chicago ASouth Carolina1001020
TexasCornell B001010
Yale BVanderbilt1001020
North Carolina AVirginia1001020
Yale AWUSTL B1001020