Packet 11: Bonus 4
This surreal novel’s narrator discovers an underground library stocked with astrophysics textbooks and Dostoevsky novels, but fails to understand either. For 10 points each:
[10h] In 2025, BookTok influencers repopularized what novel in which 40 women are held captive in a bunker?
ANSWER: I Who Have Never Known Men [or Moi qui n’ai pas connu les hommes; accept Mistress of Silence]
[10e] Sophie Mackintosh’s afterword for Jacqueline Harpman’s I Who Have Never Known Men describes its alien plains as an inversion of this author’s Herland. This author wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper.”
ANSWER: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
[10m] As far as she can tell, the narrator of I Who Have Never Known Men has this status for the last decades of her life. The title “wall” of a Marlen Haushofer novel seems to give the narrator this status, which describes the title man in a Mary Shelley novel set in the 21st century.
ANSWER: last person on the planet [accept The Last Man; accept descriptions of the only person left alive; accept man or woman for “person”]
<HA, European Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-11
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 17.69 | 92% | 69% | 15% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maybe Ever | The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| St. Marx | four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| W&L+Friend | [Redacted] | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| WashU | Lex | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 16.67 | 83% | 67% | 17% |