2007 EFT: Rataplan Ghost Rides the WWI Ambulance Packet 7
Packet by: Dennis Jang
1. One section of this work contains a duet between the English horn and the offstage oboe, representing two
shepherds piping to each other across an Alpine valley, which Schumann referred to as a “tiny tone poem.” Its
composer had earlier written a song titled “I must leave forever,” which became the foundation for this work’s first
section titled “Dreams—Passions.” After being rejected by the idée fixe in the section titled “Scene at the Country,”
the hero takes opium and has a nightmare where he is executed for murdering his lover, seen in the section titled,
“March to the Scaffold.” “Dream of a Witch’s Sabbath” is the final section of, FTP, which symphony by Hector
Berlioz?
ANSWER: Symphonie Fantastique
2. Winner of the first three Three Point Contests, this man would average a triple double in an NBA final series
against the Houston Rockets, winning the NBA Finals MVP as well as the last of his three regular season MVP
awards. The clutch performances of this athlete include stealing Isiah Thomas's inbound pass and passing to Dennis
Johnson, whose basket would give his team a 3-2 lead over Detroit in the Eastern Conference finals. He may be best
remembered for his rivalry with a player whose team defeated his Indiana State team in the 1979 NCAA
Championship, and that player, Magic Johnson, would lead the Lakers past his teams for the 1985 and 1987 NBA
Championships. FTP, name this Hall of Fame forward who won three NBA titles with the Boston Celtics.
ANSWER: Larry Bird
3. A Frost diagram plots oxidation state against the relative value of this quantity, which can be written as the sum of
the product of the number of particles of each chemical component and its chemical potential. The Nernst equation
can be derived from the fact that a change in it is equal to the negative product of the number of moles in a reaction,
Faraday's constant, and the electrical potential. The negative product of the universal gas constant, the temperature,
and the natural logarithm of the equilibrium rate constant gives the change in this quantity as well. Also calculated
by subtracting the product of temperature and entropy from the enthalpy, this is, FTP, which thermodynamic
quantity that measures the amount of useful work in a system, symbolized G?
ANSWER: Gibbs free energy [prompt on partial answer]
4. Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen authored a work about this entity and "the Wealth of Nations," which argued
that there was a correlation between GDP and this entity. Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray argued against the
United States's welfare program because of the relation between affluence and this entity in The Bell Curve. The
observation that it has been slowly rising every year is named after James Flynn. It has been argued that using
Raven's Progressive Matrices to measure it eliminates cultural biases, while other tests to measure it include
Spearman's g factor and Wechsler's scales. FTP, name this score which measures a person's ability to understand and
reason, one measure of which is named after Binet and Simon.
ANSWER: intelligence quotient
5. Hephaestus was awarded the hand of Aphrodite after he released this deity from a magical throne he himself had
made. Cydippe's children were allowed to die in their sleep as a result of serving this deity, who, according to one
story, blinded Tiresias for saying women felt more pleasure during sex. Responsible for turning Callisto into a bear,
this deity become Semele's nurse and convinced the princess to have her lover show himself in his "full glory." This
goddess sent two serpents to kill an infant Heracles, offered Paris unlimited power and fame to be chosen most
beautiful, and sent a gadfly after Io for eloping with her husband. The mother of Hephaestus, this is, FTP, which
Greek goddess of marriage who was married to Zeus?
ANSWER: Hera
6. John Lilburne praised it in his “The Just Man's Justification,” though he held it to be less important than the
innovations of Edward the Confessor. Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers strongly opposed it, while Edward Coke
[cook] wrote that it was "such a fellow that he will have no sovereign." Reissued for the final time as part of
Confirmatio cartarum, it was preceded by Stephen Langton's election as Archbishop of Canterbury instead of John
de Gray. Its signer's renouncement of it and its annulment by Pope Innocent III caused the First Baron's War, but it
was reaffirmed as part of the Petition of Right, particularly the notion of habeas corpus. Ensuring freedom of the
church and customs of the towns among its 63 clauses, this is, FTP, which charter which limited the power of the
English king, signed at Runnymede by King John in 1215?
ANSWER: Magna Carta
7. In this play’s last scene, two lovers compare themselves to Jason and Medea before both Stephano and Lancelot
tell them that their mistress and master, respectively, will arrive in one day. Earlier, before Salerio meets Lorenzo,
who is dressed as a page, Graziano agrees to “put on a sober habit” and accompany his friend to court a wealthy
heiress in Belmont. After outdoing the Prince of Morocco and the prince of Aragon by choosing the lead casket,
Bassanio breaks his promise to his wife by parting with his ring, but he does so to thank the law-clerk Balthasar,
who is Portia in disguise. She prevents Antonio, the title character, from losing a "pound of flesh" to Shylock at the
end of, FTP, which Shakespearean comedy?
ANSWER: The Merchant of Venice
8. It is often believed that either verses by Agnolo Poliziano or texts by Ovid and Lucretius were the inspirations for
this painting. Its artist gave one of this painting's characters the face of another person, whose portrait he had painted
in Catherine of Alexandria. In this painting, the central figure, who is wearing a red cloak, is next to Flora, who is
scattering flowers on the ground to her right. Stretching his hand upward to pick oranges is Mercury, wearing his
winged shoes and bearing his caduceus. On the right, Zephyr is in pursuit of the nymph Chloris, while Cupid,
floating above Venus, is aiming his arrows at the Graces, who are dancing at left. FTP, name this Sandro Botticelli
painting which depicts the arrival of the title season?
ANSWER: Primavera or Allegory of Spring
9. After allying with the khan of Chagatai and taking part in campaigns in Transoxania, this ruler would lose a
"muddy battle" against Ilyas Khodja, despite fighting alongside brother-in-law Husayn of Balkh. Becoming the head
of the Barlas upon the death of Tughluk, this man annihilated Tokhtamysh and the Golden Horde at the Battle of the
Terek River before he overwhelmed Sultan Mehmud's forces in seizing the Delhi Sultanate. Prior to his death and
ultimate succession by Shah Rukh while planning an invasion of China, he defeated the Turks at the Battle of
Ankara and captured Bayezid I. FTP, name this Mongol military leader who ruled in Central Asia during the 14th
century from his capital of Samarkand.
ANSWER: Tamerlane or Timur Leng or Timur the Lame
10. One side's closing arguments in this case ended by referring to Caesar's assassination, ending with the words, "Et
tu quoque, mi fili!" Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to William Plumer in support of his view in this case, saying
that overturning the state's decision would make "the earth belong to the dead, but not the living." Justice Duvall was
the sole dissenter in this case, which saw the defendants argue that Reverend Wheelock had the power to appoint a
successor and have administrative powers vested in trustees. However, it was decreed that the character of civil
institutions grow out of the matter in which they are formed in the decision written by John Marshall, who cried
after hearing Daniel Webster's arguments on behalf of his alma mater. FTP, name this 1819 Supreme Court case
which ruled that legislation could not interfere with private contracts.
ANSWER: Dartmouth College v. Woodward
11. In one play named after this character, another character is offered a gold ring to write down a short letter as
dictated by this title character. In a more famous play involving this character, that character tells another that "my
bent is fixed… not for hatred, but for love" after being brought in by guards, and, later on, this character tells a
relative that "I do not love a friend who loves in words." This character says this since Ismene had refused to defy
Creon's orders, yet this character still attempts to bury her brother, eventually leading to her self-hanging, as well as
the suicides of Eurydice and Haemon. Also the title character of a play by Jean Annouilh, this is, FTP, which sister
of Polynices and Eteocles, the title character of the last play of Sophocles's Oedipus trilogy?
ANSWER: Antigone
12. The Czochralski process can be used to obtain very small parts of these materials, while various recombination
processes for them include photon exchange and one named after Auger. The drift mobility and diffusion coefficient
of excess carriers in this kind of material can be measured by the Haynes-Shockley experiment, while Anderson’s
rule is used to construct diagrams of the heterojunction between two materials of this type. Whether these materials
contain a negative or positively charged current carrier distinguishes the N- and P-types, while adding impurities to
their crystal lattices is known as doping. FTP, name these materials which are often found in diodes and transistors
and have electrical conductivities between that of insulators and conductors.
ANSWER: semiconductors
13. This philosopher wrote about the philosophies of Bergson and Russell in his Winds of Doctrine: Studies in
Contemporary Opinion, while Goethe, Dante, and Lucretius were the subjects of his Three Philosophical Poets.
While he involved Socrates in two discussions with the Stranger on self-government in Dialogues in Limbo, he
broke with tradition by giving aesthetics a prominent role concerning human conduct in The Sense of Beauty. He
argued that knowledge during the instant of awareness should be characterized as an "essence" in his Skepticism and
Animal Faith. Author of the novel The Last Puritan, this is, FTP, which American philosopher and Harvard
professor whose The Life of Reason discusses the idea of history repeating itself?
ANSWER: George Santayana
14. In Jose Saramago’s Blindness, the doctor’s wife embraces this kind of creature, described as “with tears,” after
she gets lost upon leaving the supermarket. In Aristophanes’s The Wasps, Bdelycleon defends Labes, this type of
creature, from Philocleon’s accusation that it stole a piece of Sicilian cheese. Montmorency is this type of animal, of
which nothing is said in Jerome Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat. In a play by William Inge, Lola Delaney has lost her
Sheba, who is this type of animal, while John Steinbeck wrote about his own animal of this type in Travels with
Charley. The protagonist of “To Build a Fire” tries to kill his own pet, which is, FTP, what kind of animal, another
of which was named Buck in Jack London’s Call of the Wild?
ANSWER: dog
15. Poly-ADP-ribosylated proteins, which are believed to function in DNA repair and apoptosis, are enzymes
created by processes which use a coenzyme formed by this molecule. In large amounts, this molecule breaks down a
precursor to low density lipoprotein and prevents the breakdown of fat in adipose tissue. Those who consume too
much of this substance may suffer facial flushing and liver toxicity. Found in cereal grains, such as wheat and corn,
this substance has a much lower bioavailability when bound to glycosides. Hartnup's disease may result in a
deficiency of this substance due to defective absorption of tryptophan, which a precursor of this vitamin. The
coenzymes NAD and NADP are derived from, FTP, which B vitamin, a deficiency of which causes pellagra?
ANSWER: niacin or B3
16. Inspired by this work, Marcel Duchamp made an etching which saw one figure's hand in a more provocative
position, and Cornelia Parker tied up this work of art in string. The creator of this work created a copy of it for
Edward Perry Warren, who requested that the man's genitals "be clearly sculpted in the Greek tradition, rather than
modestly hidden." Its initial name came one of its figures, an Italian noblewoman in Dante's Inferno named
Francesca da Rimini. This work's other subject, Paolo Malatesta, holds a book describing the love of Lancelot and
Guinevere, while his other hand is wrapped around his partner. Originally part of the Gates of Hell, this is, FTP,
which Rodin sculpture which depicts its two lovers engaged in the title act?
ANSWER: The Kiss or Le Baiser
17. The Cerro Macá stratovolcano can be found north of the Aysén Fjord in this country, and the Chonos
Archipelago is separated from the mainland of this country by the Moraleda Channel. Rivers in this country include
the Biobío and the Petrohué rivers, the latter of which drains into Todos los Santos Lake. Lying atop the Nazca Plate
and containing the port city of Antofagasta, it has sovereignty over both Easter Island and the Wollaston group, one
island of which contains Cape Horn, and this country is also home to Punta Arenas, the world's southernmost city.
The Andes covers a third of, FTP, which country, bordered by Bolivia and Argentina to the east, which is home to
most of the Atacama Desert and has its capital at Santiago?
ANSWER: Chile
18. Jinny Marshland rejects Bradd Criley for her husband, the title character of this author's novel Cass Timberlane.
This author wrote about the rise of President Berzelius Windrip in one work, while other works by this author
include one about the separation of Fran Voelker and Sam, the title character, and another about a Baptist minister
who falls in love with Sharon Falconer. In addition to It Can't Happen Here, Dodsworth, and Elmer Gantry, this
author created a real estate agent who cheats on Myra, his wife, with Tanis Judique in the city of Zenith, as well
as another character, Carol Kennicott, who eventually returns to her husband in Gopher Prairie. FTP, name this
Nobel Prize-winning American author of Babbitt and Main Street.
ANSWER: Sinclair Lewis
19. The Hays-Kendall approach can provide an explanation for an effect that results when testing for this property,
an increase of which is proportional to decreasing particle size as described by the Hall-Petch effect. It can be
measured for polymers by use of a durometer, which was invented by Albert Shore, while the Vickers test uses the
force to surface area ratio to calculate its value. A sclerometer is used for minerals, of which talc and diamond are
often assigned the lowest and highest values, respectively. FTP, name this characteristic of a material which
represents its resistance to plastic deformation, one scale for which is the Mohs scale.
ANSWER: hardness
20. Ragnar Lodbrok decided not to destroy this place in 845 after a king paid a ransom, and the Holy Roman
Emperor moved the capital of his empire from this place to Aachen in 768. A provost of this location led a revolt of
merchants and put forth an edict of reform in 1357, but John the Good refused to put it into effect. Counts of this
place include Beggo and Adalard, and the head of its police force led a massacre of nearly 30,000 Algerians in 1962.
The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre it took place in this city, while taxis from this city helped stave off the
Germans in the First Battle of the Marne. FTP, name this city, the location of several treaties such as those ending
the French and Indian War and the American Revolution.
ANSWER: Paris
21. Prior to his successes at the Battle of Gettysburg, George Meade had been a successful creator of these
structures. Nils Gustaf Dalén was awarded the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing automatic valves for use in
these structures, while the first one constructed in America was named after William Brewster. At the end of Aldous
Huxley’s Brave New World, John the Savage eventually hangs himself in this type of structure, while Lily Briscoe
and the Ramsays consider going to the title structure in a novel by Virginia Woolf. FTP, name this type of structure,
one of which was located on Pharos in Alexandria, Egypt, as one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
ANSWER: lighthouseBonuses
1. Among the examples provided by one character in this work includes crystallization and the roots of the
eucalyptus, to which the narrator responds, “Ah, plants also belong to the philosopher class!” FTPE:
[10] Name this 1909 short story where the narrator is saved by Mr. Haley after he witnesses the title automaton
strangle his friend upon losing a game of chess.
ANSWER: “Moxon’s Master”
[10] “Moxon’s Master” is a short story by this American author of the novels The Old Gringo, The Dance of Death,
and a work which defines, among other things, love as “a temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
ANSWER: Ambrose Bierce
[10] Ambrose Bierce may be best remembered for this short story about Peyton Farquhar’s escape from death at the
title structure, allowing him to visit his wife. Oh, wait--he was already dead.
ANSWER: “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
2. Answer the following about the mango, FTPE:
[10] Mangos are awesome, in part due to the fact that it contains enzymes such as this one, a glycoside hydrolase
that breaks down a certain disaccharide into galactose and glucose, particularly helpful in drinking milk.
ANSWER: lactase [do not prompt or accept "lactose"]
[10] Also found in mangos are these kinds of chemicals, which help prevent the body from being damaged by free
radicals and examples of which include ascorbic acid and melatonin.
ANSWER: antioxidant
[10] Mangos contain this oil also found in poison ivy, which explains why people occasionally get dermatitis from
touching mango peel.
ANSWER: urushiol
3. Identify the following battles of the American Revolution, FTPE:
[10] George Washington crossed the Delaware River to surprise the allegedly drunk Hessian forces at this December
26, 1776 battle, which preceded another American victory at Princeton a week later.
ANSWER: First Battle of Trenton
[10]Following Horatio Gates's defeat at the Battle of Camden two months earlier, Loyalist forces led by Patrick
Ferguson were quickly crushed by the Patriots, who had the help of the Over Mountain Men, at this 1780 battle.
ANSWER: Battle of Kings Mountain
[10] The American Revolution ended when George Washington, joined by General Comte de Rochambeau and
Admiral de Grasse, forced General Cornwallis to surrender at this Virginia battle in 1781.
ANSWER: Battle of Yorktown
4. One of these is passive, receptive, feminine, and corresponds to darkness, while the other is active,
creative, masculine, and corresponds to lightness. FTPE:
[10] Name both of these dual concepts which represent opposite states in nature; they are often represented by the
taijitu.
ANSWER: yin and yang [both required]
[10] The concept of the yin and yang is fundamental to this Chinese religion whose Three Jewels are compassion,
moderation, and humility.
ANSWER: Taoism or Daoism
[10] This ancient Chinese text, usually credited to Laozi, is the fundamental text of Taoism and contains various
universal truths within its 81 sections.
ANSWER: Tao Te Ching or Book of the Way and Virtue
5. In Book III, the claim is made that words stand for ideas, while in Book II distinguishes between primary and
secondary qualities as well as simple and complex ideas. FTPE:
[10] Name this 1690 work which utilizes the notion of the “tabula rasa” to describe how humans have no innate
ideas until they are experienced.
ANSWER: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
[10] An Essay Concerning Human Understanding was written by this English philosopher, whose other works
include Two Treatises of Government and Letters Concerning Toleration.
ANSWER: John Locke
[10] In response to Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, this philosopher wrote a response titled
New Essays on Human Understanding. He also wrote A Philosopher’s Creed and Monadology.
ANSWER: Gottfried Leibniz
6. While theobromine, belonging to the same class of alkaloids as that of caffeine, can be found in chocolate,
theophylline is used to treat breathing problems, and they have the same chemical formula! Amazing! FTPE:
[10] Name the term that describes two molecules with the same chemical formula but different arrangements of their
atoms, such as theobromine and theophylline.
ANSWER: isomers
[10] These types of isomers have two forms that are dependent on the orientation of its functional groups. They are
often due to the rigidity of a double bond, which prevents free rotation.
ANSWER: cis-trans isomers [accept E/Z notation, prompt on stereoisomers, prompt on "geometric isomers"]
[10] These isomers, despite having varying chemical properties, spontaneously convert to each other. Some pairs of
these are called "ketone-enol" and "amide-imidic."
ANSWER: tautomers
7. Of the two main figures in this painting, one of them has her coat hanging behind her, while the other figure sits
in front of her. A pink teapot also resides on the table. FTPE:
[10] Name this 1929 painting where the two main women are seated at a restaurant, presumably to wait for the
arrival of the title food.
ANSWER: Chop Suey
[10] This painting features two men wearing hats and dark suits sitting at a counter with a woman in a diner that
bears a Phillie’s cigar advertisement on top. A diner worker, clad in white, joins the other three as the only people in
this painting.
ANSWER: Nighthawks
[10] Both Chop Suey and Nighthawks were painted by this American realist painter who also painted Gas, Automat,
and Office in a Small City.
ANSWER: Edward Hopper
8. Identify the following about social stratification, FTPE:
[10] One form of social stratification is this system used in Bali, which separates peasants, merchants, warriors, and
priests, as well as India, among other places.
ANSWER: caste system
[10] This sociologist developed the three-component theory of stratification by separating classes with respect to
wealth, prestige, and power. He also wrote Economy and Scociety.
ANSWER: Max Weber
[10] Opposed to social stratification is the notion of kinship, which was studied by this American anthropologist,
whose works include Houses and House-lives of the Aborigines and Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity.
ANSWER: Lewis Henry Morgan
9. Answer the following about the Lebesgue integral, FTPE:
[10] The Lebesgue integral, which can be thought of as partitioning a function's range, is a more general form of this
integral, which can be thought of as partitioning its domain, like when calculating its namesake sums.
ANSWER: Riemann-Darboux integral
[10] Lebesgue integrals are valid only if the set of discontinuities of a function has this property, which means that
the set can be covered by intervals whose total length is arbitrarily small.
ANSWER: measure zero
[10] This nowhere continuous function, which is usually 1 for all rational numbers and 0 for all irrational ones, is
not Riemann-integrable on [0,1] since every partition will have at least one rational and irrational number, but its
Lebesgue integral is 0.
ANSWER: Dirichelet function [accept characteristic function of the rationals or indicator function of the
rationals, prompt on partial answer]
10. At the end of this work, Sabrina, the river nymph, frees the Lady, after which the Attendant Spirit leads her to
Neptune’s house. FTPE:
[10] Name this 1634 masque where The Lady, The Elder Brother, and the Second Brother go into the woods to find
their father, who is the title character, and the son of Bacchus and Circe.
ANSWER: Comus: A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle
[10] Comus is among the works of this English author who argued against censorship in his Areopagitica and wrote
such poems as "Lycidas" and "On His Blindness" and the drama Samson Agonistes.
ANSWER: John Milton
[10] Milton is perhaps best remembered for this blank verse epic poem about the expulsion of Adam and Eve from
the Garden of Eden.
ANSWER: Paradise Lost
11. Time dilation near a large mass can cause the gravitational type, while the Hubble or cosmological type comes
from the stretching of photons coming from galaxies far, far away. FTPE:
[10] Identify this term which describes an increase of wavelength experienced by electromagnetic waves.
ANSWER: redshift
[10] One type of redshift is due to electromagnetic radiation experiencing this effect, which is a change in a wave's
wavelength or frequency due to the movement of an observer relative to the wave's source.
ANSWER: Doppler effect
[10] The gravitational redshift was first measured by Pound and Rebka using this effect, the recoil-less emission of a
gamma ray from a crystal.
ANSWER: Mossbauer effect
12. Gaius Suetonius Paulinus put down an uprising by Queen Boudicaa during the reign of this ruler, whose power
was also threatened by a conspiracy led by Gaius Calpurnius Piso. FTPE:
[10] Name this emperor who succeeded Claudius and allegedly played the fiddle while the Great Fire of Rome tore
through the city in 64 C.E.
ANSWER: Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus
[10] This woman was the mother of Nero, as well as the sister of Caligula and the wife of Claudius. After Nero
began his affair with Claudia Acte, she began to support Britannicus for emperor until Nero had him poisoned.
ANSWER: Julia Vipsania Agrippina Minor
[10] After Nero’s death, this ruler came to power and reigned for less than a year. Old and feeble, he was the first
emperor in the Year of the Four Emperors, and he was killed, along with Piso, near the Lacus Curtius.
ANSWER: Servius Sulpicious Galba Caesar Augustus
13. He avenges the death of his father, as Goll becomes his follower and the druid Tadg gives him his home Almu,
after killing the fairy Aillen at Tara. FTPE:
[10] Name this hero of Irish mythology who will later die, according to some accounts, at the Battle of the Ford of
Brea.
ANSWER: Finn McCool or Fionn mac Cumhaill [accept so long as it sounds remotely close, prompt on "Fenian
Cycle"]
[10] Finn is the prominent character in this cycle of Irish mythology. Most of its poems were supposedly written by
his son Oisin.
ANSWER: Fenian Cycle
[10] Finn became super smart after sucking on his burned thumb, on which lay the skin of this creature, which had
eaten nine hazelnuts before arriving in the river Boyne and being studied by the poet Finn Eces.
ANSWER: Salmon of Knowledge or Salmon of Wisdom
14. Identify the following dishes which involve our favorite kind of poultry--duck, of course, FTPE:
[10] In August 2006, Chicago banned this French delicacy, which is the liver of a duck or goose.
ANSWER: foie gras
[10] Another French dish involves preserving a duck by by salting it with spices such as garlic, then cooking it in a
broth and letting it bake. It can usually be kept for at least another month if refrigerated.
ANSWER: duck confit or confit de canard
[10] This Cajun dish is believed to have been invented by either "Herbert's Specialty Meats" or Paul Prudhomme. As
its name indicates, it involves stuffing three deboned types of poultry inside each other, one of which is a duck.
ANSWER: turducken [accept chuckey]
15. Originally formulated by Merrill Flood and Melvin Dresher, it differs from the “stag hunt” since the latter’s
greatest payoff occurs when both players cooperate. FTPE:
[10] Name this non-zero sum game theory situation where its two players defect, even though it is better for them to
cooperate.
ANSWER: prisoner's dilemma
[10] In the prisoner's dilemma, each player's dominant strategy is to betray the other, making this combination of
their decisions this type of equilibrium, named after a Princeton game theorist.
ANSWER: John Forbes Nash
[10] In his book The Evolution of Cooperation, this man describes how the "tit for tat" strategy was most successful
in a tournament he ran involving the iterated prisoner's dilemma.
ANSWER: Robert Axelrod
16. Answer the following questions concerning an author, FTPE:
[10] His nonfiction includes works like Instrument of Thy Peace and The Land and People of South Africa, but he is
better known for a 1948 work that was followed by its sequel, Too Late the Phalarope, in 1953.
ANSWER: Alan Paton
[10] Alan Paton is best remembered for this work, which sees Reverend Stephen Kumalo travel to Johannesburg to
find his ill sister Gertrude, only to eventually discover that his son Absalom has murdered Arthur Jarvis.
ANSWER: Cry, the Beloved Country
[10] “The Waste Land,” “The Elephant Shooter,” and “Sponono” are the titles of three of the ten short stories found
in this collection of Paton’s.
ANSWER: Tales from a Troubled Land
17. It occurred due to the rejection of the Stennis Compromise, and the Independent Counsel Act had been passed as
a result of this event. FTPE:
[10] Name this October 20, 1973 event, during the Watergate scandal, which saw the resignations of Elliot
Richardson and William Ruckelshaus.
ANSWER: "Saturday Night Massacre"
[10] The "Saturday Night Massacre" happened due to Richardson's and Ruckelshaus's unwillingness to fire this
special prosecutor, who refused to accept the Stennis Compromise but was eventually fired.
ANSWER: Archibald Cox, Jr.
[10] This Solicitor General was instructed by Nixon to fire Cox, and he actually did it. Nominated to the Supreme
Court by Reagan, he has since published books like Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and
American Decline.
ANSWER: Robert Bork
18. The aria “You rascal you! I never knew you had a soul” is sung by the Old Doctor, who is to announce the
engagement between the title character and Anatol, the son of her former lover. FTPE:
[10] Name this Pulitzer Prize-winning opera where Erika, the niece of the title character, runs away after realizing
she is pregnant with Anatol’s child but doesn't tell the title character before she leaves.
ANSWER: Vanessa
[10] Vanessa was written by this American composer, whose other works include the chamber opera A Hand of
Bridge, an overture for Sheridan's The School for Scandal, and two Essays for Orchestra .
ANSWER: Samuel Barber
[10] Barber’s most famous work may be this orchestral work, inspired by a passage from Vergil’s Georgics and
based on his String Quartet No. 1, Opus 11. It was premiered by Arturo Toscanini, who sent the score back to
Barber after memorizing it, in 1938.
ANSWER: Adagio for Strings
19. Some of their members left the Cape Colony in the 1800s to settle in the Orange Free State and the Transvaal,
and they fought against the Union of South Africa in the Maritz Rebellion in 1914. FTPE:
[10] Name this ethnic group which fought two wars with the British empire in the late 19th century and whose name
is Dutch and Afrikaans for "farmer."
ANSWER: Boers [accept Trekboere]
[10] The eastward movement of the Boers into the aforementioned regions, along with Natal, during the 1830s and
1840s is known by this name.
ANSWER: Great Trek
[10] After the Second Boer War, this man, who became commander-in-chief for Boers in the Transvaal after the
death of P. J. Joubert, became the first prime minister of the Union of South Africa.
ANSWER: Louis Botha
20. By revealing that it was Noirtier who was supposed to receive the letter from Napoleon, the title character
ensures his imprisonment, despite the efforts of Monsieur Morrel. FTPE:
[10] Name this novel where the title character returns to take revenge on Danglars, Caderousse, and Villefort upon
returning with the treasure of Abbé Faria from captivity on the Chateau d’If.
ANSWER: The Count of Monte Cristo or Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
[10] This author wrote The Count of Monte Cristo based on the story of a shoemaker Pierre Picaud. He also wrote
The Knight of the Red House, The Man in the Iron Mask, and The Three Musketeers.
ANSWER: Alexandre Dumas, père [do not accept “Dumas, fils”]
[10] This fiancée of Edmond Dantès marries Fernand Mondego and has a son, Albert de Morcef. After the title
character exposes the treachery of Count de Morcef concerning Ali Pacha, she flees her husband.
ANSWER: Mercédès
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