“Roman Fever” - 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU

Question

In this story, a woman recounts how her grandmother died after being sent into the “deadly cold” to collect flowers for her sister Harriet. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this story in which Mrs. Ansley recounts the death of her grandmother from the title disease. This story ends with the revelation to Mrs. Slade that a rendezvous in a certain city resulted in the birth of her daughter Barbara.

ANSWER: “Roman Fever”

[10e] This author of “Roman Fever” wrote stories such as “Autres Temps” and “The Other Two,” as well as the novels The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence.

ANSWER: Edith Wharton [or Edith Newbold Jones]

[10m] This title character is warned of Roman Fever by Frederick Winterbourne in a novella by a different author where she visits the Colosseum with Giovanelli.

ANSWER: Daisy Miller [or Daisy Miller] (Daisy Miller is by Henry James.)

<JC, Short Fiction/Other Literature>

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	10.00	25%	25%	50%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	18.33	83%	67%	33%

Data


Rutgers	Maryland A	10	0	10
CWRU	Haverford B	10	0	10
NYU A	Georgetown	10	10	20