Question
A vignette from this collection set in “a garden at Mons” dispassionately describes an ambush of German soldiers by noting, “We shot them. They all came just like that.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this story collection whose first edition was published with an all-lowercase title and featured eighteen italicized vignettes describing combat in World War I.
ANSWER: In Our Time
[10e] In Our Time was written by this American author of many stories featuring Nick Adams. This author’s other stories include “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” and “Hills Like White Elephants.”
ANSWER: Ernest Hemingway [or Ernest Miller Hemingway]
[10m] In a vignette set during a bombardment of Fossalta, an unnamed soldier, possibly Nick, does this action. In Hemingway’s story “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” an old waiter repeatedly intersperses the word “nada” while doing this action.
ANSWER: praying [accept reciting the Lord’s Prayer or calling out to Jesus]
<HG, American Literature>
Summary
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 10.00 | 83% | 17% | 0% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 9.00 | 80% | 10% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 11.25 | 75% | 38% | 0% |
Data
| Brown A | Brandeis B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| MIT A | Harvard A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Harvard B | Tufts A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UMass Boston | BU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |