Packet 6: Bonus 8
Aristotle’s claim that these things should be surprising, yet inevitable has often been misattributed to Flannery O’Connor. For 10 points each:
[10e] Frank Kermode wrote on “the sense of” what things, which are on the far right of Freytag’s Pyramid?
ANSWER: endings [accept resolution; accept dénouement; accept catastrophe; accept The Sense of an Ending]
[10h] In this collection’s entry “Here It Is Saturday,” a prison writing class tries to write a story that ends with a dead body. This posthumous 2015 collection often references the author’s time as an ER nurse and her expulsion from Catholic school for hitting a nun.
ANSWER: A Manual for Cleaning Women (by Lucia Berlin)
[10m] A writer struggles to combine her contradictory notes into a coherent narrative in this author’s only novel, The End of the Story. This author’s flash fiction includes “In a House Besieged” and “Samuel Johnson is Indignant.”
ANSWER: Lydia Davis
<Editors, American Literature> | O. Playoffs 6 (Editors 6)
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 10.42 | 79% | 21% | 4% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridge | Vanderbilt | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Columbia B | Bruin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cornell | Swarthmore | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Georgetown | Brown | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Harvard | Maryland A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Illinois A | WashU | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Johns Hopkins | Georgia Tech A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| MIT | Toronto B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Maryland B | UCF | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Michigan | Penn State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Minnesota | British Columbia | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| NYU A | Chicago A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| NYU B | Ohio State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Northwestern A | Virginia Tech | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Northwestern B | North Carolina | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Purdue | Illinois B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Rutgers | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Stanford A | Indiana | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Texas | Pittsburgh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Toronto A | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UC Berkeley A | UC Berkeley B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EHM |
| UCLA | Georgia Tech C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Virginia | Stanford B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Waterloo | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 24 | 10.42 | 79% | 21% | 4% |