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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

HeardPPBE %M %H %
3917.6992%67%18%

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Conversion

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
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Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
VAULT II at Georgia Tech2026-01-24✓621.67100%100%17%
VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS2026-03-13✓316.6767%100%0%
VAULT II at McGill2026-03-13✓412.5075%50%0%
VAULT II at UCSB2026-03-13✓417.50100%75%0%
VAULT II Northern UK2026-04-24✓313.33100%33%0%
VAULT II Southern UK2026-04-24✓412.5075%50%0%
VAULT II at Harvard2026-04-30✓215.00100%50%0%
VAULT II at MINT2026-06-19✓516.00100%40%20%
VAULT II Stanford Online2026-07-17✓823.75100%75%63%