Question
In a novel whose title was taken from this literary work, Lady Slane decides to embrace her freedom and live in a small cottage after her husband’s death. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this work. In another novel whose title was taken from this literary work, the protagonist and his lover Helen Aldwidge get covered in blood when a dog falls out of an airplane and lands next to them.
ANSWER: Samson Agonistes (The second novel is Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley.)
[10m] The final line of John Milton’s closet drama Samson Agonistes titles this author’s novel All Passion Spent. This author’s poem The Land was the inspiration for the fictional poem The Oak Tree.
ANSWER: Vita Sackville-West [or Victoria Mary, Lady Nicolson]
[10e] Vita Sackville-West is the inspiration for the title character of this Virginia Woolf novel, who publishes The Oak Tree nearly two centuries after she turns into a woman.
ANSWER: Orlando: A Biography
<Literature - British Literature - Misc Literature>
Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
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| I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | UBC | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| throw away your cards, rally in the streets | Thompson et al. | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |