Question

In a novel from this country, Rengganis enters her classroom naked while shouting about being assaulted by a dog in the school toilet. In another novel from this country, the one-legged artist Jean Marais (“mah-RAY”) helps the protagonist avoid an obese hitman nicknamed Fatso. (-5[1])A magical realist novel from this country focusing on a prostitute who returns from the dead is titled Beauty is a Wound. (10[1])A novel from this country about the native boy Minke’s (10[1])love for the mixed-race concubine’s daughter Annelies was dictated by its author from prison. This modern-day country is the setting of This Earth of Mankind and a novel about the coffee trader Max Havelaar. (10[1])For 10 points, what country is the birthplace of authors Eka Kurniawan and Pramoedya (10[1])Ananta Toer (10[1])(“pra-MOOD-yah ah-nahn-tah TOOR”), whose characters speak Dutch, Malay, and Javanese? (10[1])■END■ (10[4]0[1])

ANSWER: Indonesia [or Republic of Indonesia; or Republik Indonesia; prompt on Dutch East Indies]
<McGill B, World Literature>
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Summary

Florida2025-02-01Y3100%0%0%124.00
Great Lakes2025-02-01Y6100%0%17%131.17
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y6100%0%17%124.83
Midwest2025-02-01Y6100%0%0%84.33
North2025-02-01Y3100%0%0%99.00
Northeast2025-02-01Y5100%0%20%126.60
Overflow2025-02-01Y5100%0%0%105.60
Pacific Northwest2025-02-01Y2100%0%50%121.50
South Central2025-02-01Y2100%0%50%132.00
Southeast2025-02-01Y4100%0%0%125.75
UK2025-02-01Y10100%0%10%115.10
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y8100%0%13%106.00
Upstate NY2025-02-01Y3100%0%0%132.00

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Kai MadgwickManchesterOxford B42-5
Arya KarthikOxford ASheffield6410
Albert NyangLSEWarwick B7410
Antoni KluzowskiWarwick AImperial A10810
Seraphina Charlotte FooCambridge ASouthampton B12210
Andrei HuiCambridge BImperial B12410
Benjamin WatsonOxford CCambridge D13110
James ByrneBristolSouthampton A13210
Zayyan MahmoodSouthampton ABristol1320
Arvin BoraghiCambridge CDurham13210
Eliza DeanOxford BManchester13210
Jacob Hardin-BernhardtNYU CCambridge E13210