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 by Zelda Fitzgerald.
ANSWER: Save Me the Waltz
<Literature - American Literature - Long Fiction>
Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
Data
| Berkeley | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Cry of the Common Loon | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | Stanford+ | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |