Question
These are the two main families respectively descended from Adélaïde Fouque's ("ah-day-lie-EED fooc's") marriage to a gardener and affair with a smuggler. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these two literary families, one upper-class and one working-class, members of which respectively appear in the novels L'Argent ("larzh-ON") and L'Assommoir ("lass-om-WAHR").
ANSWER: Rougon ("roo-GON") family and Macquart ("mah-CAR") family [or the Rougons and the Macquarts; accept answers in either order; accept Rougon-Macquart cycle or Les Rougon-Macquart; reject partial answers]
[10m] The penultimate Rougon-Macquart novel, The Debacle, is set during this war. A story set during this war ends with Elisabeth weeping as Cornudet ("COR-noo-day") whistles.
ANSWER: Franco-Prussian War [or Franco-German War] (The story is "Boule de Suif.")
[10e] This naturalist French author included Germinal ("zhair-mih-NAL") in the Rougon-Macquart cycle. This author defended Alfred Dreyfus in his open letter "J'Accuse" ("zhah-COOZ").
ANSWER: Émile Zola ("ay-meel ZOH-lah") [or Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola]
<Literature - European Literature - Long Fiction>
Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 36 | 16.11 | 92% | 56% | 14% |