Question
Rómulo Gallegos’ novel Canaima is in a subgenre of novela de la tierra set in this kind of place, which often featured idealistic protagonists overwhelmed by the forces of nature. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this kind of natural setting that also titles a set of Kipling stories about the “man-cub” Mowgli.
ANSWER: the jungle [accept the rainforest; accept la novela de la selva; accept The Jungle Book; prompt on the wilderness]
[10m] An unstable poet is “devoured” by the jungle in this country’s novel The Vortex. A character in a novel from this country named Rebeca starts a plague of insomnia and carries around a bag of her parents' bones.
ANSWER: Republic of Colombia (The second novel is One Hundred Years of Solitude.)
[10h] A father refuses to accept his boy’s death while hunting in “The Son,” one of this author’s many stories set in the jungle of Misiones. In a story by this author, four brothers behead their sister after seeing how dinner is prepared.
ANSWER: Horacio Quiroga [or Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza] (The second story is “The Decapitated Chicken.”)
<Literature - World Literature>
Summary
| 2024 Booster Shot (Columbia) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 33% | 50% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 7 | 17.14 | 100% | 29% | 43% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 1 | 0.00 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt) | 03/02/2024 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
Data
| SIUE | Squidward Community College | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Truman State | WUSTL A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| WUSTL C | WUSTL J | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |