Question

A character created by this author smashes her forehead against a table during her forced second marriage. In that story by this author, a woman who asks the narrator questions about the afterlife is metaphorically called the “New Year’s Sacrifice.” A tea shop owner in a story by this author uses profits to buy a folk cure to unsuccessfully save their son from tuberculosis, the title “Medicine.” (15[1])A man who hasn't seen the moon in 30 years thinks his brother (*) killed his sister in a story by this author that ends with the line, “Save the children…” (10[1])That story by this author depicts a character who reads “Eat People” in a book and was inspired by a Gogol story of the same title. The collection Call to Arms is by, for 10 points, what Chinese author of the short story “Diary of a Madman”? (0[4])■END■

ANSWER: Lu Xun [or Zhou Zhangshou]
<Jay Kim, World Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Ariel FaederPittsburghCarnegie Mellon6615
Kevin ZhengMichigan BMichigan A9610
Rohan Navaneetha RajOhio State COhio State A1440
Peter ZengOhio State AOhio State C1440
Raifton BartlingMichigan StateOhio State B1440
Matthew LamOhio State BMichigan State1440

Summary

2024 Penn Bowl Harvard10/26/2024Y475%0%25%112.00
2024 Penn Bowl UK10/26/2024Y5100%60%20%83.60
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU11/02/2024Y450%25%0%81.00
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago11/02/2024Y7100%57%29%93.57
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite11/02/2024Y3100%33%0%107.00