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% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maybe Ever | The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| St. Marx | [Redacted] | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| WashU | Lex | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B | W&L+Friend | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
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% |