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Packet 8: Bonus 2

While studying in this country, Qiū Miàojīn (“chʼyoh MEOW-jin”) wrote an epistolary novel titled for “last words,” whose chapters can be read in any order. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this adopted home of Gāo Xíngjiàn (“GOW sheeng-jʼYEN”). In a Dài Sījié (“die sudge-YEH”) novel set during the Cultural Revolution, two boys illicitly read an entry from this country’s Human Comedy.

ANSWER: France [or the Republic of France or la République française] (Qiū Miàojīn wrote Last Words from Montmartre. The Dài Sījié novel is Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress.)

[10h] In this novel, the failed student Fāng catches a boat home from Paris after getting a degree from a diploma mill called Carleton University. This picaresque 1947 novel by Qián Zhōngshū (“ch’yen jong-SHOO”) is titled for an idiom for marriage.

ANSWER: Fortress Besieged [or Wéichéng]

[10m] This author’s novel Little Reunions includes a fictional portrayal of her mother, who ditched her opium-addicted father to live as an art student in Paris. This author left Shanghai after writing Love in a Fallen City.

ANSWER: Eileen Chang [or Zhāng Àilíng or Liáng Jīng]

<HA, World Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-8

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
43	16.98	100%	61%	9%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	1000000 Delinquents	10	0	10	20	EM
A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever	H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs	10	0	10	20	EM
Abbas I founded the Abbasids	UBC B	10	0	10	20	EM
Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!	The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	10	0	0	10	E
BHSU	Execute Order 6 7	10	0	10	20	EM
Berkeley A	Stanford B	10	0	10	20	EM
Berkeley B	Team 7	10	0	10	20	EM
C R A B S	Dour Straits	10	10	10	30	EHM
Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	Surrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa	10	0	10	20	EM
Chicago !A	In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	10	0	10	20	EM
Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	Stanford A	10	0	0	10	E
Contessa Dora	Catholic University A	10	0	10	20	EM
David Foster Gromit	Polish Orthographers Posting Their Łs	10	0	10	20	EM
Dielectrical Materialism	Vacuous Tortoise	10	0	0	10	E
Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡	Say It Ain't Zhou	10	0	10	20	EM
Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam	Tennessee A	10	0	10	20	EM
Guelph Cloze	William of Baskerville attempts to investigate John P. Robarts, gets turned away for not having a student card	10	0	0	10	E
Habitat 67	Noah Sheidlower	10	0	10	20	EM
I fear not the man who has reviewed 10000 cards once, but I fear the man who has reviewed one card 10000 times	I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	10	0	10	20	EM
It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife	Copán Seethe	10	0	0	10	E
JHU	Mike and Psmith	10	0	10	20	EM
Licence to Bill	Licence to C. Wright Mill	10	0	0	10	E
Maybe Ever	The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals	10	0	10	20	EM
Middlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club	The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's Back	10	0	0	10	E
Munir Siddiqui Fan Club	UNC Charity	10	0	0	10	E
Muscle Mass Extinction Event	Indiana	10	10	10	30	EHM
NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question)	The "C" Team	10	0	0	10	E
Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	10	0	0	10	E
Not Old! (Old)	Team 8	10	0	0	10	E
Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	Northwestern	10	0	0	10	E
Rosslyn Academic Team	Penn State	10	0	10	20	EM
Shipping Down from Ballston	Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo	10	0	0	10	E
St. Marx	[Redacted]	10	0	10	20	EM
Strange Case of Dr. Joker and Mr. Pennywise	You Don't Have the Cards	10	10	10	30	EHM
The Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the Easy	No Country for Old Quizzers	10	0	0	10	E
The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players	UBC A	10	0	10	20	EM
The lion does not concern itself with negging teammates out of their own categories	Where's the nearest library, I need to have a public crashout.	10	0	0	10	E
The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	Invective Against Swans	10	0	10	20	EM
Untitled Keyal Team	NYU A	10	10	10	30	EHM
WashU	Lex	10	0	10	20	EM
consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	The Fire Neg Time	10	0	0	10	E
four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B	W&L+Friend	10	0	0	10	E
https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png	Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	10	0	10	20	EM

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✓	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	20.00	100%	83%	17%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%