Packet 3: Bonus 15
Alexander Nehamas claimed that this writer had a project of “life as literature.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author who has divided quizbowl forums users over whether his novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra counts as philosophy.
ANSWER: Friedrich Nietzsche [or Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]
[10h] Nehamas has used this hyphenated term to describe Nietzsche’s project of living as a literary persona. This process partly titles a book in which Stephen Greenblatt analyzes social codes in texts like The Book of the Courtier.
ANSWER: self-fashioning [accept self-creation; accept Renaissance Self-Fashioning; prompt on fashioning]
[10m] Though Nietzsche thought the ending was laughable, Zarathustra borrows the phrase “eternal feminine” from this play. Walter Kaufmann only translated Act 1 and the final “Chorus Mysticus” scene of this play.
ANSWER: Faust, Part Two [or Faust II; or Faust: The Second Part of the Tragedy; or Faust. Der Tragödie zweiter Teil in fünf Akten; accept answers indicating the second Faust play; prompt on Faust; reject “Faust, Part One” and equivalents]
<HA, European Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-3
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 14.85 | 100% | 39% | 9% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berkeley B | Not Old! (Old) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr. | Berkeley A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Stanford A | Team 7 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Team 8 | Stanford B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✕ | 5 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✕ | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 40% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |