Packet 7: Bonus 8
This word modifies “life” in the title of a Karolina Pavlova novel in which a young woman with artistic aspirations, Cecily von Lindenborn, is cornered into a marriage of convenience. For 10 points each:
[10m] What word also titles a novella about the titular counselor Golyadkin, who is thrown out of Klara’s birthday party and ultimately carted off to an asylum?
ANSWER: double [accept The Double or Dvoynik; accept A Double Life or Dvoynaya zhizn’] (The Double is by Fyodor Dostoevsky.)
[10e] Each chapter of A Double Life follows a single day and ends with Cecily dreaming in this literary style. Alexander Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin is a novel in this style.
ANSWER: verse [accept novel-in-verse, poetry, or meter; accept specific meters such as iambic tetrameter]
[10h] This author helped repopularize Pavlova by declaring her one of the masters of Russian verse. Translators struggle with a dense novel by this author whose protagonist wears a red domino costume from a masked ball.
ANSWER: Andrei Bely [or Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev] (The novel is Petersburg. Pavlova became a favorite author of the Russian Symbolists.)
<HA, European Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-7
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 14.29 | 100% | 29% | 14% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ana Pauker? I hardly know her! | Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡 | Tennessee A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Lex | St. Marx | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Maybe Ever | W&L+Friend | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EH |
| Say It Ain't Zhou | The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| WashU | The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| [Redacted] | four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✕ | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 0% | 25% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✕ | 2 | 0.00 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✕ | 5 | 8.00 | 80% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✕ | 5 | 12.00 | 40% | 40% | 40% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✕ | 3 | 26.67 | 100% | 67% | 100% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✕ | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 25% | 25% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✕ | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 0% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✕ | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 0% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✕ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 0% | 50% |