Packet A: Tossup 2

In an epilogue set in a movie theater in this city, a man loses his wedding ring, watch, and cufflinks between the legs of a woman he fondles. A novel set in this city that retells the killing of Trotsky in multiple styles also includes the wordplay-heavy (-5[1])dialogue of (-5[1])Bustrófedon. (10[2]-5[2])The gay poet (10[2])José Cemí (10[2])(“say-MEE”) grows (10[1])up in this city (-5[2])in the 1977 novel (10[2])Paradiso. (-5[3])An author who was (10[1])an (-5[1])exile to London wrote about his (10[1])sexual exploits in this city (-5[1])in a novel published in English as [his name]’s Inferno, and used this city’s dialects in his Joycean novel Three (10[1])Trapped (10[1])Tigers. A poet born (-5[1])in this capital city (-5[1])wrote (10[1])the collection (10[1]-5[3])Versos (10[1])sencillos (10[5]-5[2])(“sen-SEE-yohs”), which (10[1])includes the poems (10[1])“I Cultivate (10[1])a White Rose” (10[8]-5[1])and (10[1])“Guantanamera.” (10[3])For 10 points, what capital city was the birthplace of José Martí? (10[1])■END■ (10[17]0[4])

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