Packet 4: Bonus 18
In 2018, students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School performed songs like “Totally Fucked” from the musical adaptation of this play shortly after the Parkland school shooting. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this play in which Melchior is expelled from school for writing an essay about sex and Wendla dies after a botched abortion.
ANSWER: Spring Awakening [or Frühlings Erwachen; accept Spring’s Awakening or The Awakening of Spring] (by Frank Wedekind)
[10e] In Act II of Spring Awakening, Moritz and Melchior study this play. This two-part play ends with a chorus saying “the eternal feminine leads us on” as the title scholar ascends to heaven.
ANSWER: Faust (by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
[10h] Cameron Kasky, who appeared in the Parkland production, asked Steven Sater about the removal of this character from the musical. This nameless character encourages the suicidal Melchior to go on living in the play’s final scene, which is set in a graveyard.
ANSWER: The Masked Man [or Der Maskenmann]
<Editors, European Literature> | D. Prelims 4 - Toronto B + Harvard + Michigan + Minnesota
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 18.33 | 78% | 78% | 28% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | MH |
| Bruin | Chicago B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Columbia A | British Columbia | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Georgetown | Ohio State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Georgia Tech C | Illinois B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Illinois A | Northwestern B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| NYU A | Vanderbilt | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| NYU B | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Northwestern A | Stanford A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Penn State | Georgia Tech B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Pittsburgh | Indiana | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Texas | WashU | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Toronto A | UCLA | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | MH |
| UC Berkeley A | North Carolina | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| UC Berkeley B | Stanford B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| UCF | Cambridge | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Virginia | Rutgers | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Waterloo | MIT | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 18 | 18.33 | 78% | 78% | 28% |