Packet E: Bonus 8
This author was attacked in a poem read at the Calabash Literary Festival that begins “I have been bitten / I must avoid infection / Or else I’ll be as dead as [this author’s] fiction.” For 10 points each:
[10m] What author was criticized for rejecting his heritage in the poem “The Mongoose”? In a novel by this author, Selim engages in an affair with Yvette, whose husband Raymond falls out of favour with the “Big Man.”
ANSWER: V. S. Naipaul [or Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul] (The novel is A Bend in the River.)
[10e] The author of “The Mongoose,” Derek Walcott, explored Caribbean identity more positively in this epic poem, which is loosely based on the Iliad.
ANSWER: Omeros
[10h] Walcott also accused Naipaul of turning his back on his native Trinidad in an essay about this novel. This autobiographical Naipaul novel describes his time renting an English cottage from socialite Stephen Tennant.
ANSWER: The Enigma of Arrival
<Toronto B, World Literature> | Packet E - Chicago A, Toronto B, Brandeis B, JHU A
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 75 | 14.00 | 83% | 57% | 0% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia Tech A | Missouri A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Iowa State | Washington A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Minnesota A | Claremont | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Missouri B | Carleton College | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California (North) | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 67% | 100% | 0% |
| California (South) | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 50% | 0% |
| Canada | Main Site | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Florida | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 9 | 14.44 | 89% | 56% | 0% |
| Midwest | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 12.50 | 75% | 50% | 0% |
| Northeast | Main Site | ✓ | 5 | 10.00 | 60% | 40% | 0% |
| Overflow | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 50% | 0% |
| South Central | Main Site | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Southeast | Main Site | ✓ | 7 | 14.29 | 86% | 57% | 0% |
| UK | Main Site | ✓ | 12 | 14.17 | 92% | 50% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 18.75 | 100% | 88% | 0% |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |