Question
An editor fighting censorship, the soul of a dead man, and the mother of a boy shot during a popular uprising narrate sections of this author’s novel Human Acts. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author who also wrote about a woman who starts to believe that she is a tree after having dreams about animal slaughter in the novel The Vegetarian.
ANSWER: Han Kang (“hahn kahng”)
[10e] The Vegetarian is based on an earlier story by Han titled for these objects “of my Woman,” in which a woman literally turns into a tree. Characters in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms swear an oath in a garden named for a type of these objects.
ANSWER: fruit [or yeolmae; accept peaches; accept táo]
[10h] The Vegetarian drew comparisons to this novel by Kyung-sook Shin, in which Park So-Nyo’s children realize how little they know her after she disappears in a subway station in Seoul.
ANSWER: Please Look After Mom [or eommaleul butaghae]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 6 | 20.00 | 100% | 83% | 17% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT | 01/27/2024 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| GWU A (UG) | William & Mary A (UG) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland A (Grad) | UNC A (Grad) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Maryland B (UG) | Virginia B (UG) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UNC B (UG) | UNC C (UG) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Liberty A (Grad) | Virginia A (UG) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |