Question
Note to moderator: Read the answerline carefully. After leaving one of these places, the protagonist of the unfinished novel Everything Flows visits his scientist cousin, whom he depicts as “Judas I” in an embedded play. For 10 points each:
[10m] The life of poet Oskar Pastior inspired the depiction of teenager Leo Auberg’s time in what sort of place in Herta Müller’s novel The Hunger Angel?
ANSWER: gulags [or work camps; or labor camps; or prison camps; or internment camps; accept Soviet or Russian concentration camps or concentration camps in the USSR; prompt on camps or concentration camps by asking “in what country?”; reject “death camps” or “extermination camps”]
[10h] This Soviet author of Everything Flows drew on his time as a war correspondent to fictionalize the Eastern Front of World War II in the War and Peace-esque doorstopper Life and Fate.
ANSWER: Vasily Grossman [or Vasily Semyonovich Grossman]
[10e] The protagonist of Everything Flows has this first name. A gulag provides the setting for an Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn novel that follows “One Day in the Life of” a man with this first name.
ANSWER: Ivan [or Ivan Denisovich Shukhov; accept One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich or Odin den’ Ivana Denisovicha]
<Brandeis A, European Literature>
Summary
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| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 80% | 20% | 20% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 8.33 | 67% | 0% | 17% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 17% | 17% |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 33% | 33% | 0% |
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| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 28.00 | 200% | 0% | 80% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 13.00 | 60% | 10% | 60% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 8.75 | 75% | 13% | 0% |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
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| Warwick B | Oxford A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Southampton A | Oxford C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Sheffield | Bristol | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU C | Southampton B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |