Question
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s story “The Spider’s Thread” was inspired by a parable about this food from a novel. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this food that Grushenka analogizes to her one “good deed.” In a parable that Grushenka tells to Alyosha, a woman’s guardian angel cites a kind act involving this food to argue for her entry into heaven, but her refusal to take others with her damns her to hell.
ANSWER: onions
[10e] Grushenka relates the parable of the onion to Alyosha in this novel, in which Ivan tells him the parable of the Grand Inquisitor.
ANSWER: The Brothers Karamazov [or The Karamazov Brothers; or Brat'ya Karamazovy] (by Fyodor Dostoevsky)
[10h] While listening to a passage about this event, Alyosha has a dream of Father Zosima in heaven because he “gave an onion.” In a chapter titled for this event, Father Paissy (“PY-see”) reads a passage about it over Zosima’s coffin.
ANSWER: Wedding at Cana [or Marriage at Cana; accept Cana of Galilee; accept Jesus turning water into wine or equivalents; prompt on Jesus’s first miracle]
<Morrison, Long Fiction>
Summary
| 2024 ESPN @ Brown | 04/06/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Cambridge | 04/06/2024 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Chicago | 03/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 67% | 17% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Columbia | 03/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Duke | 03/23/2024 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Online | 06/01/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
Data
| Tunks et al. | Riley et al. | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Present King of James is Bald | Williams et al. | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Free-ish Agents | World's Fair Wiggle Walk | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |