Question
Answer the following about Russian novels depicting the Caucasus region, for 10 points each.
[10e] Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Prisoner of the Caucasus shares its name with a narrative poem by this other author. This author of The Captain’s Daughter wrote the verse novel Eugene Onegin.
ANSWER: Alexander Pushkin [or Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin]
[10h] This other Tolstoy novella set in the Caucasus mountains begins and ends with the image of a crushed crimson thistle. The title guerrilla leader of this novella dies fighting the Russians after leaving them to rescue his family.
ANSWER: Hadji Murat [or Hadji Murad]
[10m] The seminal Caucasus novel is often considered to be a novel by this author about the various episodes of the superfluous man Pechorin (“peh-CHOR-in”), titled A Hero of Our Time. This author is sometimes called the “poet of the Caucasus.”
ANSWER: Mikhail Lermontov [or Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 88% | 50% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 12.86 | 86% | 43% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 15.00 | 75% | 63% | 13% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at UBC | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida | 2024-11-16 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 60% | 0% | 40% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 11 | 14.55 | 91% | 27% | 27% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis | 2024-11-16 | Y | 10 | 13.00 | 80% | 40% | 10% |
Data
| Amherst A | Bowdoin B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Boston University B | Williams A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| BU A | Bowdoin A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Tufts B | Brandeises Brew | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Brown A | Harvard A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Carabrandeis | Tufts A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yale B | Clark A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| A Brandeis Supreme | Diamond Brandeis | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale A | MIT A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale C | Northeastern A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |