Packet 2: Bonus 2

Answer the following about authors who set increasingly numerous sequences of novels in the Muslim world, for 10 points each.
[10e] Palace Walk, Place of Desire, and Sugar Street make up Naguib Mahfouz’s “trilogy” of novels named for what national capital?
ANSWER: Cairo, Egypt [accept Cairo Trilogy]
[10m] Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer (“pra-MOOD-yah Ananta TOOR”) included This Earth Mankind in his tetralogy of books named for this island, where he was imprisoned while writing it. The “quartet” of books named for this island follows the mixed race Minke.
ANSWER: Buru [accept Buru Quartet]
[10h] This Pakistan-born author’s Islam Quintet includes Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree and The Stone Woman. This editor of the New Left Review satirized Trotskyites in his debut novel Redemption.
ANSWER: Tariq Ali
<Editors, World Literature> | B. Prelims 2 - Northwestern A + Virginia Tech + Brown + Penn State

HeardPPBE %M %H %
2116.19100%48%14%

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
CambridgeVirginia1010020EM
Columbia AUCF100010E
CornellColumbia B100010E
GeorgetownHarvard1010020EM
IndianaMIT10101030EMH
Maryland BToronto A1001020EH
MichiganGeorgia Tech C100010E
MinnesotaGeorgia Tech B1010020EM
NYU AStanford B1010020EM
North CarolinaBritish Columbia100010E
Northwestern BJohns Hopkins100010E
Ohio StateChicago A1010020EM
PittsburghMaryland A100010E
PurdueUCLA100010E
Stanford ABruin1010020EM
TexasSwarthmore100010E
Toronto BIllinois B1010020EM
UC Berkeley ARutgers1010020EM
VanderbiltIllinois A1010020EM
WashUGeorgia Tech A1001020EH
WaterlooNYU B100010E

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Main Site2026-04-17✓2116.19100%48%14%