Round 6: Tossup 2

A landowner in this novel falls in love with his servant after removing a splinter from her face. A character in this novel who embodies the “superfluous man” archetype duels his friend’s aristocratic uncle Pavel. A countess in this novel is gifted a chemistry textbook and cares for her sister Katya. (-5[1])In this novel, Fenechka works at Nikolai’s estate and Anna Odintsova visits a man dying from a botched (*) autopsy. In this 1862 novel, one of the first in Russian widely read in Western Europe, Arkady Kirsanov returns home from college with his nihilist friend Bazarov. For 10 points, (-5[1])name this novel by Ivan Turgenev titled for two (10[1])family generations. (10[1])■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: Fathers and Sons [or Otcy i deti or Fathers and Children]
<Long Fiction — Ganon Evans> | SHOW-ME Four Packet 6
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Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
Rube Goldberg XIX11/20/20251663%0%25%100.60
SHOW-ME Four Nationwide HS11/20/20255100%80%20%48.60
SPOOKY IX11/20/2025540%0%40%108.00