Question
This novel begins with the protagonist arriving fashionably late during a performance of Gounod’s Faust. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this novel by Edith Wharton in which the frequent theatergoer Newland Archer is disgusted by the hypocritical upper class society of New York City.
ANSWER: The Age of Innocence
[10h] While in Paris, this character from a different novel sees his father and half-sister at a performance of Gounod’s Faust. This character ends the novel he appears in by stating he sold his birthright for a “mess of pottage.”
ANSWER: the Ex-Colored Man [accept The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man] (by James Weldon Johnson)
[10m] In this novel, the protagonist performs in Gounod’s Faust but abandons her career as a ballet dancer when she gets a foot infection. Alabama Beggs is the protagonist of this novel, which was written when its author was a patient in a mental hospital.
ANSWER: Save Me the Waltz (by Zelda Fitzgerald)
<Literature - American Literature - Long Fiction>
Summary
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| Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |