Answer: the Trial Or Der Prozess
MANU GINOBILI OPEN
PACKET #8
1. Franz and Willem get in trouble and must endure the attentions of “the Whipper,” while Titorelli sells the protagonist three paintings in exchange for some advice. It also features romantic exchanges with Huld’s servant Leni [*] and the waitress Elsa. Its penultimate chapter “In the Cathedral” describes the parable of the door and the man who dies waiting for it to open. At one point the protagonist is mistaken for a house painter and is told that he is an hour and ten minutes late, this is immediately followed by the washerwoman’s screams. Although Fraulein Burstner seeks to avoid its main character, Frau Grubach is shocked by the accusations she hears. The work begins with the protagonist’s arrest on his thirtieth birthday, FTP, identify this novel by Franz Kafka about a certain Joseph K.
Answer: The Trial or Der Prozess
2. This man's main works included three books on the faith of the Trinity and three books of commentaries on Paul's Epistles. He also seems to have corresponded with Paulinus of Nola. He met the eunuch Caelestius in Rome at some point between 411-15, and it was Caelestius who first put forth in Africa six theses that laid out the basis of this man's namesake [*] heresy. The doctrine was later condemned by Pope Zosimus, but Augustine continued to fight it for the rest of his life. FTP, name this native of Britain who asserted that Adam's sin harmed only himself and not the whole human race, and thus that man did not need to be redeemed from Original Sin.
Answer: Pelagius
3. Snatches of ragtime are interspersed in its second section, which is notable for its depiction of two bands approaching one another as they play different marches in different tempos. The first movement opens with the strains of Stephen Foster’s “Old Black Joe”, while the final section, inspired by a Robert Underwood Johnson [*] poem, evokes mist and water through muted strings combined with English and French horns. These build up to a muscular crescendo and then all but vanish. Also known as its composer’s First Orchestral Set, it depicts the encampment of Israel Putnam, the achievements of Colonel Shaw and his regiment, and a walk near the Housatonic River in Stockbridge. FTP identify this work named for the number of settings its invokes, a piece by Charles Ives.
Answer: Three Places in New England
4. Describing the earth as “daedal,” the story of its composition is told in his companion’s work History of Six Week’s Tour where the author is quoted as saying that it was completed “under the immediate impression of the deep and powerful feelings [*] excited by the objects it attempts to recount.” Those descriptions include lines about the eagle bringing “some hunter’s bone” and a wolf who “tracts here.” The speaker searches in a cave for the witch of Poesy as his mind expands from gazing into the “Ravine of Arve.” Divided into five sections the titular location is described as having “a great voice” to repel fraud and woe, appearing “still, snowy and serene,” and “gleaming on high,” FTP identify this work, subtitled “Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni,” a work by Percy Shelley about the largest peak in Europe.
Answer: Mont Blanc
5. Judge Rush Elmore was sent on an unsuccessful last minute attempt to stop the president from presenting it. John Stringfellow was one of its strongest supporters, and harshly condemned Acting-Governor Frederick Stanton for hosting a second referendum on it at Leavenworth,[*] where the vote was sharply opposed to it. A committee led by Congressman William English attempted to pass it in the form of a compromise bill nicknamed the “English Swindle,” but it still failed to be approved locally and was rejected in favor of another document drawn up at Wyandotte. Stephen Douglas was a vocal opponent of James Buchanan’s efforts to pass, FTP, what 1857 constitution that supported the admission of Kansas as a slave state?
Answer: Lecompton Constitution
6. A modified version of it is used to prepare alkenylstannanes from beta-stannylacrolein and another compound. Used extensively in natural product synthesis, especially in cases where two complex substrates need to be coupled together via an E-double bond, this reaction showcases[*] regioselectivity, and the steric factors of the sulfone substituents also play a role. The alkene formation involves overall electron addition to the arenesulfonyl group and loss of an arenesulfinate ion. FTP, name this reaction where a beta-hydroxyarylsulfone is first converted into either the acetate, benzoate or sulfonate derivative and then into the corresponding alkene, that is not named for an actor who portrayed Gomez Addams.
Answer: Juliareaction
7. The ones “of Arad” occurred after the battle of Temesvar. The more famous ones ended at Taunton, but began in Winchester with a consideration of Dame Alice Lyle. [*] Hundreds were sold into slavery and the names of those who traveled to carry them out included Baron Montagu, Baron Wright, and Sir Polexfen. Perhaps the most notorious figure associated with them was the hangman, Jack Ketch, who took more than three strokes with his axe to carry out their primary executor Baron Jeffreys’ orders to kill the leader of the invaders, an illegitimate son of Charles II. FTP identify these vicious trials conducted in the West of England after the Duke of Monmouth’s failed invasion attempt of 1685.
Answer: bloody assizes
8. His polarization factor helps determine the intensity of radiation passing through a crystal. His number, according to the Wiedemann-Franz law, is the thermal conductivity of a metal divided by the product of its temperature and its electrical conductivity. His namesake electron [*] model treats it as a damped harmonic oscillator. A local field named after him is also known as the Moscotti field. FTP, name this Dutch physicist and teacher of Pieter Zeeman, who collaboarted with George Fitzgerald to explain the results of the Michelson-Morely experiment and created a set of transformations that describe changes to mass, length and time of a body traveling near the speed of light
Answer: Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
9. One title character is befriended by don Antonio de Isunza and don Juan de Gamboa after she is betrayed in “The Lady Cornelia.” The cross-dressing Theodosia is at the center of “The Two Damsels,” and a seventy year old marries a fifteen year old girl in “The Jealous Estremaduran.” [*] Better known ones include a work in which Tomas goes insane called “Doctor Glass Case,” a picaresque about the sheepdog Berganza entitled “The Colloquy of the Dogs,” and a romance about the beautiful Preciosa, “The Little Gypsy Girl.” The crime lord Monipodio allows the two title pícaros to join his gang in the most famous of them, “Rinconete y Cortadillo.” FTP, name this collection of twelve works that were to serve as an example of good literature, according to their author Miguel de Cervantes.
Answer: Exemplary Novels (or Novelas Ejemplares) (accept “La Señora Cornelia” or “The Lady Cornelia” before mentioned, and then go fucking nuts because that is hard fucking core)
10. He believed that man was born as a statue, his economic ideas were published in Commerce and Government, and he argued for the importance of language in logical reasoning in The Language of Calculation. As tutor to the young Prince Ferdinand of Parma [*] he composed a thirteen volume Course of Study that included the works The Art of Thinking and Treatise on Animals. This priest believed in the reality of the soul even though his most famous work, which begins “We never get outside ourselves, it is always our own thoughts that we perceive,” marked him as disciple of Locke’s naturalism. A good friend of Rousseau’s, FTP, identify this man best known for the works Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge and Treatise on Sensations.
Answer: Ettiene Bonnot de Condillac
11. Much of this work’s structure was anticipated by its author’s “Letters from the Wupper Valley” and many of its observations were made during tours with his friend Mary Burns. [*] Its section on “the Great Towns” is filled with street schematics, while other chapters discuss the quality of food, the rate of disease, as well as the rise of atheism among the title group. Its author was deeply affected by the “plug riots” and it references the Chartist movement during its chapter “The Attitude of the Bourgeoisie.” First published in German in 1845 it was to be forty-seven more years until it was translated and published in the title country. FTP identify this volume that begins with a description of the workers at the Manchester cotton mills, a work by Friedrich Engels.
Answer: The Condition of the Working Class in England
12. He argued that the U.S. should respond to the threat of overpopulation by splitting up into twelve “constituent republics” in his 1993 exposition of his political philosophy, Around the Cragged Hill. He won his second Pulitzer for his 1968 Memoirs, and earlier spent a two year term as U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia during his term as a history professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in [*] Princeton. His political career consisted of working as an assistant to men like Summer Welles, Averell Harriman, and Dean Acheson, while his best-known work came after George Marshall appointed him as head of the Policy Planning Staff. FTP, identify this man who signed his name as “X” in the article “The Sources of Soviet Conduct,” also called the Long Telegram.
Answer: George Kennan
13.Its namesake pyrophosphate is used in enzymatic reactions that involve carbon-carbon bond cleavage, as it is a coenzyme for transketolase in the Pentose phosphate shunt and for alpha ketoacid deyhydrogenases in the Krebs cycle. Rogers syndrome is caused by defects in the SLC19A2 gene, [*] which codes for proteins that transport this molecule. Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome is caused by a paucity of this molecule, a pyimidine ring fused to a thiazole ring. Named aneurin in 1926 when it was crystallized by Jansen and Donath, fifteen years earlier it had been isolated from rice bran by Casimir Funk. FTP, name this water-soluble B-complex vitamin, a deficiency of which causes beriberi.
Answer: thiamine (accept B1 or aneurin before mentioned)
14. One mythological figure by this name is the son of Pharos, the King of Egypt, who according to Euripides is chosen by Hermes to keep the real Helen after the Trojan War. Later his own son, Theoclymenus, tries to marry Helen, but is foiled when Menelaus returns to claim her. Menelaus also figures in another myth featuring a more famous character with this name betrayed by his own daughter, Idothea, [*] who advises Menelaus to disguise himself as a seal in order to catch her father sleeping and bind him. This strategy assures that his powerful ability to change shapes and escape capture would be neutralized. FTP identify this mythological name associated with the “Old Man of the Sea.”
Answer: Proteus
15. He pondered the existence of “the eternal bending skies” in “The Mystery” and notes that he has been given the gift of song by two masters, though one has infinite mercy, in “Compensation.” The Keatsian “A Summer’s Night” was less popular than his “Song of Summer” which begins “Dis is gospel weatha- fo sho,” marking his debt to writers like Thomas Nelson Page [*] and James Whitcomb Riley. Not usually overtly political his “The Colored Soldiers” celebrated black participation in the Civil War, while the last stanza of “Sympathy” begins with the famous line “I know why the caged bird sings.” All of these works can be found in the poetry collections Oak and Ivy and Majors and Minors. FTP identify this author who also wrote novels like The Uncalled and Sport of the Gods, but was most famous for his dialect inflected Lyrics of Lowly Life.
Answer: Paul Laurence Dunbar
16. Its outlying territories are Rodrigues Island, the Cargados Carajos Shoals, St. Brandon, and the Agalega Islands and its districts include Black River, Pamplemousses, and Savanne. Lake Vacoas is the chief source of its water supply. It appears in Gravity’s Rainbow as the setting of Slothrop’s grandfather’s shooting of the last [*] dodo bird. Named by the Dutch for the governor of Nassau. Famous authors from this country include the humourist Yvan Lagesse and Edouard Maunick author of “The Birds of Blood” and “Shoot Me”. It is the largest member of the Mascarene group a group that includes Reunion . FTP name this country with capital at Port Louis, located 500 miles east of Madagascar.
Answer:Mauritius
17. One made of Titanium oxide and epoxy was used by Japanese physicists to confine microwaves in its central cavity without reflection and transmission. Saupe, Peitgen, and Jurgens showed that the topological equivalent of all compact one-dimensional (*) objects can be found in its infinite variety. Its fractional volume after the nth iteration is equal to the length of the side of a hole cubed times the number of filled boxes, or 20/27 to the nth power. After infinitely many iterations, it has infinite surface area but zero volume. FTP, name this fractal with a capacity dimension of about 2.72, the three-dimensional analog of the Sierpinski carpet, which looks like a cube with a lot of cubic holes cut in it.
Answer: Menger sponge
18. One side paid the noted historian Jared Sparks fifteen thousand dollars to “discover” an old document that would support its ratification. Article ten was concerned with the extradition of “criminals and swindlers,” while article eleven explained that some of the previous conditions had a five year expiration date. Negotiated by the only cabinet holdover [*] of one participating country’s previous administration, a coup of signing this document, which had been presaged by terms John Harvey and Winfield Scott had earlier established, was gaining the Mesabi Range. It supported a joint naval blockade for suppressing the African slave trade and granted access to the St. John River, all while clarifying lingering disputes over land, FTP, what is this 1842 treaty that established the Northeastern boundary of the U.S.
Answer: Webster-Ashburton Treaty
19. The servants Harold, Ordulph, Berthold, and Landolph constantly humor the title character’s whims. In Act 2, a plan is hatched by Dionysius Genoni at the behest of the title character’s nephew (*) Charles di Nolli in which two women will appear to execute life-sized portraits of themselves and prove the passage of time to the title character. The appearance of his former lover Matilda and his daughter Frida provides a moment of clarity for the title character, who admits that he had been feigning insanity for some time, yet he must consciously embrace his madness after he murders his rival, Baron Tito Belcredi. FTP, name this work about an Italian man who falls off a horse and believes himself to be royalty, a play by Luigi Pirandello.
Answer: Enrico IV (or Henry IV)
20. The lower part of the vaulted ceiling depicts the prophets while the upper portion is painted blue with golden stars and is meant to represent Heaven. Built by its namesake to atone for the sins of his father Reginaldo, who is mentioned as a usurer in the 17th Canto [*] of the Inferno, the altar features statues by Giovanni Pisano. Its interior is decorated by framed works that read from left to right and top to bottom; these begin with The Expulsion of Joachim and include such scenes as The Feast at Cana and The Mocking of Christ. These culminate with The Last Judgment on the west wall of this structure, which is well known for its proximity to the Roman Arena (#) that gives it an alternate name, FTP, identify this building in Padua that contains The Lamentation and other parts of the “Life of Christ” frescoes by Giotto.
Answer: Scrovegni Chapel (accept “Arena Chapel” before it is said, just prompt afterwards)
Bonuses
1. Answer the following about a type of organic compound, FTPE.
A. (10) Treating them with hydrazine reduces a carbon-oxygen double bond to a carbon bonded to two hydrogens via the Wolff-Kishner reaction. These compounds are basically any organic compounds that contain a carbonyl group bonded to at least one hydrogen, in the formula RCHO.
Answer: aldehydes
B. (10) This test mixes a namesake reagent with an unknown mixture. If aldehydes are present in the mixture, a silver sheen or black precipitate will form.
Answer: Tollens’ Test
C. (10) Like the Tollens test, it also has a namesake reagent, which is chromic acid in sulfuric acid. If aldehydes are present in the solution, a green precipitate will form.
Answer: Jones Oxidation Test
2. Answer the following about a Supreme Court decision FTPE:
A. The question in this case was whether the Massachusetts legislature had entered into a binding contract with its 1785 decision to incorporate a company to construct a certain toll passage, and whether it was violating the Constitution by incorporating another company in 1828 to build a free, competing passage.