Question
In the last chapter, the narrator of this novel interrupts the description of a storm by saying “here pause: pause at once,” so that “sunny imaginations” can “picture union and a happy succeeding life.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this 1853 novel whose ending leaves the main love interest’s fate ambiguous. Its last paragraph imagines Madame Beck, Père Silas, and Madame Walravens living long, prosperous lives.
ANSWER: Villette
[10e] The ambiguous ending of Villette contrasts with the ending of this novel by the same author. This novel’s last chapter begins by stating “Reader, I married him” in reference to Mr. Rochester.
ANSWER: Jane Eyre [or Jane Eyre: An Autobiography] (Charlotte Brontë wrote both novels.)
[10m] The last paragraphs of Jane Eyre are devoted to this character, who ends the novel by traveling to India as a missionary.
ANSWER: St John (“SIN-jin”) Rivers [or St John Eyre Rivers; reject “John”]
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago A | Ohio State A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago C | North Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Claremont A | Iowa State A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Rutgers B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell A | Stanford A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Duke A | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida B | Johns Hopkins A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech A | Maryland A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Harvard A | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois A | Penn A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Imperial A | NYU A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| MIT A | Minnesota A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Michigan A | Houston A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn State A | Virginia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Purdue A | Minnesota B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| South Carolina A | McGill A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Texas A | Indiana A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Toronto A | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley A | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley B | Vanderbilt A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | Brown A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL B | Rutgers A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale A | Florida A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Yale B | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |