Question
Aluísio Azevedo’s novel O Mulato brought this movement to Brazil, where Machado de Assis denounced its lurid influence on Eça de Queiróz (“AY-suh dee kay-ROSH”). For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this literary movement whose determinism was criticized by the realists Leopoldo Alas and Juan Valera. Claude Bernard’s physiology influenced its elaboration by Émile Zola.
ANSWER: naturalism [or naturalist literature; or naturalisme or naturalismo or naturalistes]
[10h] In The Pressing Question, this Spanish countess advocated a uniquely hispanophone naturalism. She adopted naturalism’s poor protagonists in The Tribune and its frank sexuality in The House of Ulloa (“oo-YO-ah”).
ANSWER: Emilia Pardo Bazán [or Emilia Pardo Bazán y de la Rúa-Figueroa; prompt on Bazán]
[10m] Zola’s Rougon-Macquart influenced Benito Pérez Galdós’s 46 National Episodes, whose first novel is mostly set in these places. Gilliatt (“gill-YAHT”) seeks an engine in one of these places in a novel written during Victor Hugo’s exile.
ANSWER: ships [or boats; accept shipwrecks; accept fleets or armadas or navy or word forms; accept decks or sterns or other parts of ships; accept galleys, galleons, steamships, or other specific ships; accept high seas or open ocean; prompt on vessels] (The unnamed novels are Trafalgar and Toilers of the Sea. Hugo was exiled to Guernsey.)
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Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berkeley A | Maryland | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Brown | Michigan | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Chicago B | North Carolina A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Claremont Colleges | Virginia | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Indiana | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Columbia B | Yale B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell B | Vanderbilt | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Georgia Tech | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Illinois | Toronto A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Iowa State | NYU | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Kentucky | Minnesota B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Ottawa | Toronto B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn | WUSTL B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Purdue | Cornell A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rutgers | Arizona State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| South Carolina | Harvard | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Stanford | Chicago A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | Texas | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Waterloo | Minnesota A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | Northwestern | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 04/21/2024 | Y | 20 | 11.00 | 65% | 40% | 5% |