Packet 9: Bonus 10
This character responds “that’s why I do it” after being told off for whistling because it’s “so boyish”. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this character, who declares “I can’t get over my disappointment in not being a boy.” A novel titled for this character’s “Boys” is set at Plumfield Academy, which she runs after marrying Professor Bhaer.
ANSWER: Jo March [prompt on March]
[10e] Jo March’s desires to be a boy have been cited as evidence that this author of Little Women may have been, by modern understandings, transgender.
ANSWER: Louisa May Alcott [or Lou Alcott]
[10h] Another work cited as evidence of Alcott's gender non-conformity is the story “Enigmas”, in which a man with this profession is hired to spy on Mr. Noel, who he discovers to be a woman. An old man declares “ah humanity” after another character with this profession dies of starvation.
ANSWER: scrivener [accept “Bartleby the Scrivener”]
<Literature - American, Jamie Burchett> | VAULT II Packet 09
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | 17.69 | 92% | 67% | 18% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT II at Georgia Tech | 2026-01-24 | ✓ | 6 | 21.67 | 100% | 100% | 17% |
| VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 67% | 100% | 0% |
| VAULT II at McGill | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 50% | 0% |
| VAULT II at UCSB | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| VAULT II Northern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| VAULT II Southern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 50% | 0% |
| VAULT II at Harvard | 2026-04-30 | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| VAULT II at MINT | 2026-06-19 | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 40% | 20% |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 8 | 23.75 | 100% | 75% | 63% |