Packet 21: Bonus 17

This disease titles a short story by Edith Wharton, in which Alida Slade reveals she forged the letter that led to an affair between her husband, Delphin, and Grace Ansley. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this disease, which Daisy Miller eventually succumbs to at the end of her namesake novella.
ANSWER: Roman Fever [accept malaria; prompt on fever]
[10m] Daisy Miller is a novella by this American author of The Portrait of a Lady and The Turn of the Screw.
ANSWER: Henry James
[10e] In The Turn of the Screw, a governess sees Peter Quint and Miss Jessel, two of these beings. In Edith Wharton’s story “The Lady’s Maid’s Bell,” the Brympton family’s estate is haunted by one of these beings.
ANSWER: ghosts [accept clear equivalents such as spirits or phantoms or spectres]
<MIT A, American Literature> | Packet G

EditionsHeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
19518.11100%67%14%

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Conversion

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
George Mason ALehigh A0101020ME
Maryland ARutgers C10101030HME
Maryland CJohns Hopkins001010E
NYU BPrinceton0101020ME
RowanRutgers D001010E
Rutgers ALehigh B0101020ME
Rutgers BNYU C001010E
Stony BrookGeorge Mason B0101020ME
Vassar BMaryland B0101020ME

Summary

TournamentEditionExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
Northern CaliforniaUSY412.50100%25%0%
Southern CaliforniaUSY720.00100%86%14%
Eastern Canada (1)USY420.00100%50%50%
Eastern Canada (2)USY917.78100%67%11%
FloridaUSY417.50100%75%0%
Great LakesUSY1121.82100%91%27%
Lower Mid-AtlanticUSY916.67100%56%11%
Upper Mid-AtlanticUSY917.78100%67%11%
MidwestUSY921.11100%89%22%
NorthUSY417.50100%75%0%
PacificUSY817.50100%75%0%
South CentralUSY512.00100%20%0%
SoutheastUSY1117.27100%55%18%
Upstate NYUSY120.00100%100%0%