Question
This novel ends in medias res during a hectic outdoor dinner party, where the protagonist has a spiteful conversation with his neighbor Marcia while his wife’s lover stabs his father in the eye. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this novel in which Nathan Zuckerman attempts to recount the life of Seymour “Swede” Levov, who discovers that his daughter Merry is the Old Rimrock bomber.
ANSWER: American Pastoral
[10h] Merry has this sort of condition, which Zuckerman implies to have motivated her turn to radicalism. In another novel, a character with this condition slits his own throat after losing his virginity to a sex worker named Candy.
ANSWER: speech impediment [accept stutter or stammer] (The other character is Billy Bibbit from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.)
[10e] American Pastoral is the first novel in this author’s American Trilogy, all of which are narrated by Zuckerman. This author also wrote Portnoy’s Complaint.
ANSWER: Philip Roth
<HG, American Literature>
Summary
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| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 80% | 20% | 0% |
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| Paddington in Peru (2024) | The cult of SGA | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |