Question
An essay from Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist compares Kate Zambreno’s novel Green Girl to this novel, whose protagonist is “the green girl… as she tires of playing the part of girl.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Joan Didion novel about the Hollywood actress Maria (“muh-RYE-uh”) Wyeth, who descends into madness and is eventually institutionalized.
ANSWER: Play It as It Lays
[10e] Didion analyzes the “romantic vision” of Hollywood in an essay from this collection, which is titled for a phrase from W. B. Yeats’s poem “The Second Coming.”
ANSWER: Slouching Towards Bethlehem (The essay is “I Can't Get That Monster Out of My Mind.”)
[10h] A Didion essay titled for one of these objects explains the role of the Santa Ana winds in Los Angeles’s identity. A Didion essay about keeping one of these objects associates it with a woman at a hotel bar explaining why she separated from George Sharp.
ANSWER: a notebook [accept notes; accept “Los Angeles Notebook”; accept “On Keeping a Notebook”; prompt on books or journals]
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown A | Claremont A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago A | Rutgers A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago C | Michigan A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Yale B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell B | Minnesota B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Duke A | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida A | Purdue A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Harvard A | Vanderbilt A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Iowa State A | Imperial A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins A | North Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| MIT A | Florida B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland A | Houston A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| McGill A | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota A | Penn A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Ohio State A | Rutgers B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn State A | Illinois A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford A | Georgia Tech B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Toronto A | South Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| UC Berkeley A | Cornell A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Indiana A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL B | Yale A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |