Bonus
Due to having an affair in this novel, the untouchable Velutha is accused of killing a girl before being beaten to death by police. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this novel in which Sophie Mol drowns after she joins her cousins’ attempt to escape her aunt Ammu.
ANSWER: The God of Small Things
[10e] In The God of Small Things, Velutha is framed because of his caste and because of his ties to this ideology, the subject of a manifesto by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx.
ANSWER: Communism [accept Communist Manifesto]
[10m] After Sophie Mol drowns, Velutha is killed in one of these places where the twins Estha and Rahel fled to. Mohun Biswas causes his father to drown in a V. S. Naipaul novel titled for his pursuit of one of these places.
ANSWER: house [accept A House for Mr. Biswas; accept History House]
<Cambridge B, World Literature>
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 74 | 16.89 | 97% | 45% | 27% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK (North) | UK | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| UK (South) | UK | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 20% | 60% |
| Northern California | US | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Southern California | US | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| Eastern Canada (2) | US | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 50% | 17% |
| Florida | US | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | US | Y | 8 | 21.25 | 100% | 75% | 38% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 17% | 17% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 60% | 60% |
| Midwest | US | Y | 6 | 20.00 | 83% | 50% | 67% |
| North | US | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| Northeast | US | Y | 8 | 21.25 | 100% | 75% | 38% |
| Pacific | US | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 33% | 17% |
| Southeast | US | Y | 8 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Upstate NY | US | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |