the end of The Wings of the Dove - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 6: Bonus 12

Description acceptable. In this scene, a character gestures at an envelope on the table and demands “Your word of honour that you’re not in love with her memory.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Identify this novelistic scene in which a man delivers an ultimatum to his fiancée over an inheritance, prompting her to make the ambiguous declaration “We shall never be again as we were!”

ANSWER: the end of The Wings of the Dove [accept synonyms for “end” such as the last scene in The Wings of the Dove; accept answers indicating the Fifth Chapter of Book 10 of The Wings of the Dove]

[10e] This author of The Portrait of a Lady fictionalized his cousin as the doomed American heiress Milly Theale in The Wings of the Dove.

ANSWER: Henry James

[10m] Late in The Wings of the Dove, Kate delays news of Merton’s inheritance by doing this action. The narrator of another James novel resigns himself to buying a portrait of Jeffrey Aspern after Tita tells him she did this action.

ANSWER: burning a letter [accept burning the Aspern papers; accept equivalents like lighting documents on fire]

<HA, American Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-6

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
38	14.21	95%	45%	3%

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Conversion

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

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✓	2	10.00	50%	50%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✕	5	10.00	80%	0%	20%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	10.00	50%	50%	0%