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% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contessa Dora | Mike and Psmith | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| JHU | UNC Charity | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Munir Siddiqui Fan Club | https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Penn State | Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞ | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Rosslyn Academic Team | Catholic University A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
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% |