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Packet H: Bonus 1

Plays in this form produced conflict via the “quiproquo,” in which two characters would misinterpret the same situation in opposing ways. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this formulaic 19th-century dramatic genre developed by Eugène Scribe (“oo-zhen skreeb”) and popularized by Victorien Sardou.
ANSWER: well-made play [or pièce bien faite]
[10e] George Bernard Shaw criticized the well-made play in an essay titled for the “quintessence” of this author, which laments that his play A Doll’s House may be acted as a “melodrama or farcical comedy.”
ANSWER: Henrik Ibsen [or Henrik Johan Ibsen; accept “The Quintessence of Ibsenism”]
[10m] An author with this surname adapted his didactic novel The Lady of the Camellias as a well-made play. Another author with this surname drew on his African ancestry in the novel Georges.
ANSWER: Dumas [accept Alexandre Dumas fils or Alexandre Dumas père]
<Purdue, European Literature> | Packet-H_Cambridge-C_Illinois-B_Purdue_Sheffield-B_Southampton-A_Toronto-D

HeardPPBE %M %H %
5215.9698%56%6%

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Claremont AUC Berkeley A1010020HE
UC Berkeley BUCLA0101020EM
UCSDClaremont B010010E

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
California2025-02-01✓316.67100%33%33%
Florida2025-02-01✓310.0067%33%0%
Great Lakes2025-02-01✓616.67100%67%0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01✓618.33100%67%17%
Midwest2025-02-01✓618.33100%83%0%
North2025-02-01✓313.33100%33%0%
Northeast2025-02-01✓518.00100%80%0%
Pacific Northwest2025-02-01✓215.00100%50%0%
South Central2025-02-01✓210.00100%0%0%
Southeast2025-02-01✓412.50100%25%0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01✓918.89100%78%11%
Upstate NY2025-02-01✓310.00100%0%0%