Question
This work warns an “apostle of ignorance, champion of obscurantism [and] panegyrist of Tartar morals” that he is “standing on the brink of an abyss.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Identify this document that lambastes the conservative mysticism of the Selected Passages of its addressee, who died of self-starvation with leeches hanging off his nose soon after reading it.
ANSWER: Belinsky’s “Letter to Gogol” [accept descriptions of an open letter from Vassarion Belinsky to Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol; prompt on “Letter to Gogol” by asking “by whom?”]
[10e] For discussing Belinsky’s letter, the Petrashevsky Circle was subjected to a theatrical mock execution, then given this punishment. The circle’s member Fyodor Dostoevsky depicted it in The House of the Dead.
ANSWER: being sent to Siberia [or katorga; accept descriptions mentioning Siberia; accept Sibir’ in place of “Siberia”; prompt on exile, imprisonment, transportation, hard labor, penal colony, or prison camp]
[10m] Before breaking with both, Belinsky lauded Dostoevsky as the “new Gogol” after reading this debut novel of his. In this novel, Makar Devushkin is outraged by the portrayal of his condition in Gogol’s “The Overcoat.”
ANSWER: Poor Folk [or Bednye lyudi; or Poor People]
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 9 | 14.44 | 89% | 56% | 0% |
Data
| We Need New Names | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| var merchants | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| BHSU B | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Dyatlov Passement incident | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| The Empire Bikes Back | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | The Oldest Men in the World | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |