Packet 5: Bonus 3
Maurice Edgar Coindreau’s translations so entrenched this author’s reputation among French critics that Jean-Paul Sartre declared “for young people in France, [this author] is a god.” For 10 points each:
[10e] André Bleikasten’s The Ink of Melancholy reads four of what author’s novels about Yoknapatawpha County?
ANSWER: William Faulkner [or William Cuthbert Faulkner]
[10m] An influential Sartre essay cites Quentin Compson’s smashing of this object as a key to Faulkner’s project. Quentin’s father had given him this object “not to remember” a certain concept, but to “forget it now and then.”
ANSWER: pocket watch [prompt on clock] (The concept is time.)
[10h] In Jean-Luc Godard’s film Breathless, Patricia quotes this Faulkner novel in claiming to prefer “grief” over “nothing.” The more comic of this novel’s two narratives follows the “tall convict” down the flooded Mississippi.
ANSWER: The Wild Palms [or If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem]
<HA, American Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-5
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 16.28 | 95% | 65% | 2% |
Conversion
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| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
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| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 10.00 | 80% | 20% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 20.00 | 80% | 100% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 83% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |