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Packet 9: Bonus 12

In a Silvina Ocampo story titled for one of these places “Made of Sugar,” Cristina gradually comes to resemble the dead character Violeta. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these places. The narrator and his knitting sister Irene escape from one of these places being “Taken Over” after hearing mysterious noises from beings in a story by Julio Cortázar.
ANSWER: houses [accept casas; accept “House Taken Over” or “Casa tomada”; accept “The House Made of Sugar” or “La casa de azúcar”]
[10e] Ocampo and Cortázar are authors from this South American home country of Jorge Luis Borges.
ANSWER: Argentina [or Argentine Republic or República Argentina]
[10m] Ocampo wrote a story in which Leopoldina’s family tries to get her to use these phenomena to make them rich. In a novel often titled in translation for one of these occurrences, Lin Daiyu is loved by the protagonist who is reincarnated from a piece of jade.
ANSWER: dreams [accept sueños or mèng; accept “Leopoldina’s Dream” or “Los sueños de Leopoldina”; accept Dream of the Red Chamber or Hónglóumèng; prompt on The Story of the Stone with “what occurrences appear in the more common translated title?”]
<Literature - World, Daniel Merida> | VAULT II Packet 09

HeardPPBE %M %H %
4017.0093%48%30%

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Abbey ParkBurlington Trojans010010E
Cheese SandwichMartingrove0101020EM
GlebeNorthern010010E
RenertBella Vista10101030HEM

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TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
VAULT II at Georgia Tech2026-01-24✓620.00100%67%33%
VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS2026-03-13✓316.67100%33%33%
VAULT II at McGill2026-03-13✓417.50100%50%25%
VAULT II at UCSB2026-03-13✓518.00100%60%20%
VAULT II Northern UK2026-04-24✓310.00100%0%0%
VAULT II Southern UK2026-04-24✓410.0075%0%25%
VAULT II at Harvard2026-04-30✓220.00100%50%50%
VAULT II at MINT2026-06-19✓510.0060%20%20%
VAULT II Stanford Online2026-07-17✓823.75100%88%50%