Bonus

This author’s essay “Some Aspects of the Short Story” instructs Cubans on writing about revolution by contrasting a simple war story with “The Monkey’s Paw.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author who was pressured to resign his professorship in 1946 and self-exiled to Paris, where he set parts of his collection Bestiary and a novel with 99 “expendable” chapters.
ANSWER: Julio Cortázar [or Julio Florencio Cortázar] (The novel is Hopscotch.)
[10m] Cortázar likely allegorized Juan Perón’s government in this story, in which strange noises force the narrator and his sister Irene into progressively smaller areas of their home.
ANSWER: “House Taken Over” [or “Casa Tomada”]
[10h] One of these things titles a Cortázar novel written on the eve of Perón’s fall, in which Juan and Clara wander a foggy Buenos Aires. Passages critiquing Pinochet litter a novel by Alejandro Zambra structured as one of these things.
ANSWER: exams [or tests; accept standardized tests; accept Chilean Academic Aptitude Test; accept Final Exam or El examen; accept Multiple Choice]
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Cornell BYale0000
HarvardMaryland0000
Illinois AVirginia1010020EM
Illinois BFlorida1010020EM
Iowa StateIndiana1010020EM
Johns HopkinsGeorgia State100010E
MinnesotaMichigan1010020EM
NYUPenn State1010020EM
North Carolina AWaterloo A100010E
Ohio StateUCF1010020EM
OttawaCornell A100010E
StanfordNorthwestern10101030EMH
TexasNorth Carolina B1010020EM
Toronto AGeorgia Tech100010E
Toronto CRIT1010020EM
VanderbiltLSE1010020EM
WUSTL AMIT1010020EM
WUSTL BColumbia A100010E
Waterloo BArizona State1010020EM
Winona StateToronto B1001020EH

Summary

TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2016.0090%60%10%