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ACF Fall 2010 Packet by Bellarmine [Tanay Kothari, Nikhil Desai, John Cherian, and Phillip Yakushev ] and

UCLA [Ian Drayer, Tirth Patel] Edited by Will Butler, Carsten Gehring, John Lawrence, Dallas Simons, and Guy Tabachnick 1. One character in this novel buys a diamond before murdering a jeweler and being taken out of prison by Lord Wilmore. Another character in this work betrays Ali Pasha during the Greek revolution and sells his wife into slavery. At the end of this novel, the title character falls in love with the slave girl Haydee, and Luigi Vampa captures Danglars and imprisons him. In this novel, the Morcerf marries Mercedes and the protagonist finds the treasure described by Abbe Faria after breaking out of the Chateau d'If, where he was falsely imprisoned. For 10 points, name this revenge novel centering on Edmond Dantes, written by Alexandre Dumas. ANSWER: The Count of Monte Cristo [accept Le Comte de Monte-Cristo] 2. In cricket, bowlers from this nation include Jacques Kallis and Hansie Cronje. At one World Cup, this nations rugby team won against another including Jonah Lomu in the finals and was led by Francios Pienaar. One runner from this nation won the 800 meters at the 2009 World Championships, and was accused of being not entirely female. Siphiwe Tshabalala scored a goal for this nation against Mexico this year in a group which also included Uruguay and France. For 10 points, name this home of Caster Semenya and Ernie Els whose vuvuzelas buzzed throughout its hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. ANSWER: Republic of South Africa [or Republiek van Suid-Afrika] 3. A generalization of these operations to mappings between Banach spaces is named for Frchet. Higher order ones can be calculated by Faa di Bruno's Formula, and they do not exist for any point on the Weierstrass Function. The entries of the Jacobian matrix are first order examples of these, as are the components of the gradient. When there are multiple variables, partial ones are used. This mathematical concept can be defined using limits. When there is a composition of functions, the chain rule can be used to compute them. For 10 points, name this operation that describes the change of a function as its input changes and which is the opposite of an integral. ANSWER: derivatives 4. In one of this authors novels, Tertuliano discovers his resemblance to film star Antonio. This author of The Double used the convent of Mafra as the setting for Baltasar and Blimunda. Fernando Pessoa outlives the title author by nine months in his The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis. This author wrote a novel in which the Iberian Peninsula breaks off from Europe, and his most famous novel features rampant crime because everyone other than the doctors wife suffers from the title condition. For 10 points, name this author of The Stone Raft and Blindness, a Nobel Laureate from Portugal. ANSWER: Jos de Sousa Saramago 5. This meeting was reassembled by Julius III by the bull Quum ad tolenda. This council declared the entire Vulgate to be canonical, including the Deuterocanonical books. Pius IV reinstated this council for the last time and codified the mass eventually superseded by the one decided at the Second Vatican Council. This council defined original sin and the seven sacraments, and rejected threatening ideas like justification by faith alone and Huldrych Zwinglis version of the Eucharist. For 10 points, name this ecumenical council that condemned Protestant doctrines and began the Counter-Reformation. ANSWER: Council of Trent [or Nineteenth Ecumenical Council] 6. During this war, a group of Catholic deserters formed a battalion called the San Patricios, of which 50 were later hanged after being captured at the Battle of Churubusco. One negotiator ignored his recall and was fired after successfully negotiating this wars peace treaty. That man was Nicholas Trist. One leader in this war lost his fake leg to troops guided on a flanking route by Robert E. Lee in the Battle of Cerro Gordo. One side in this war made an amphibious landing at Veracruz under Winfield Scott, and that side also had troops under Zachary Taylor. For 10 points, name this war ended by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, from which one side received California. ANSWER: Mexican-American War

7. A famous example of these objects, studied by Ellis Englesberg, uses a protein called C to bind to two sites at once, blocking access to the PBAP site. Like bacteriophages, they may use anti-termination. CAP bound to cAMP can activate another more famous example of them in the presence of inducers like IPTG or allolactose. These objects include both promoter sites and namesake stretches of DNA that bind repressors and activators. For 10 points, name these systems of gene regulation investigated by Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod, famous examples of which include ara, gal, trp, and lac. ANSWER: operons 8. Possible models for the left-most figure in this painting include Andrea del Verrocchios David or Giuliano de Medici. That figure in red wears a curved sword on his sash and prods his caduceus into a cloud. Roses trail out of the mouth of a figure on the right of this painting, who struggles with a figure with blue robes and blue-gray skin. Those are this paintings depictions of Mercury, Chloris, and Zephyrus. At the top of the painting, Cupid takes aim towards the Graces, who dance center left. In the very center of this painting, Venus stands where the orange trees arch. For 10 points, name this painting by Sandro Botticelli, an allegorical representation of spring. ANSWER: Primavera [or Allegory of Spring before last four words of tossup; prompt afterwards] 9. One character in this novel is left without a job after his producer Hal Valence cuts his role of Maxim Alien. Another character in this novel loves the mountaineer Alleluia Cone. A girl named Ayesha leads a pilgrimage which ends as people disappear intothe Arabian Sea. Other dream sequences in this novelfeature a character called Mahound. Saladin Chamcha is detained on a beach for being an illegal immigrant after a plane explosion over the English Channel causes him and the Bollywood star Gibreel Farishta to take on the personas of the devil and the archangel Gabriel. For 10 points, name this novel which led to a fatwa against its author, Salman Rushdie. ANSWER: The Satanic Verses 10. This man was influenced into militarism by the growth of the shin or new zaibatsu. This mans country was taken off of the gold standard by a prime minister who was assassinated during the May 15 Incident. This man made a recorded radio broadcast known as the Jewel Voice Broadcast that announced his countrys surrender in one war. This ruler also issued the Declaration of Humanity, which ended his claim to divine status. That declaration came when this mans country was under Douglas MacArthurs administration during U.S. occupation. For 10 points, name this ruler whose reign saw WWII and who was succeeded by Akihito as emperor of Japan. ANSWER: Michinomiya Hirohito [or Showa] 11. The operator of this quantity is negative Plancks constant squared over two times the mass del squared. In the case of a stable gravitational system, its average value over time according to the virial theorem is equal to negative one half times another quantity. This quantity is represented by a capital T in the formula for the Hamiltonian. The average value of this quantity per molecule in an ideal gas is three halves kt. It is not conserved in inelastic collisions due to heat dissipation. For 10 points, name this quantity, whose rotational form is given by one half times moment of inertia times angular velocity squared, often called energy of motion. ANSWER: kinetic energy [do not accept energy or potential energy; accept energy of motion before mentioned; prompt on K] 12. A chryselephantine statue of this deity had her holding a pomegranate and a scepter with a cuckoo on it and was found at Argos. Another temple to this Greek goddess lay in Paestum, Italy. This patron deity of Samos was often symbolized by the peacock and the cow. One of this goddesss daughters was replaced by Ganymede as cupbearer to the gods and was named Hebe. Hephaestus fell for a whole day after this figure threw him off Mount Olympus. She tried to get back at her husband through his illegitimate offspring like Apollo, Dionysus, and Hercules. For 10 points, name this Greek analogue of Juno, the wife of Zeus. ANSWER: Hera [accept Juno until Greek] 13. This composer set a text by Goethe about Druids fighting Christian persecution in his cantata, Die Erste Walpurgisnacht. The minuet from his First Symphony is sometimes replaced with a version of the scherzo from his String Octet in E-flat. In his teen years, this composer wrote an overture for a play for which he would later write a wedding march. One of his symphonies ends with a presto saltarello finale, while another was written on the same trip that inspired his Hebrides Overture. For 10 points, name this composer of Scottish and Italian symphonies and incidental music to A Midsummer Nights Dream. ANSWER: Felix Mendelssohn

14. This ruler regained some power when the Fundamental Laws were passed, which dropped some parts of a document this ruler issued at the urging of Sergei Witte. Another prime minister for this ruler who worked for agricultural reform was named Pyotr Stolypin. Most of this rulers fleet was lost in the Battle of Tsushima in a war that ended as a humiliating loss to Japan. This ruler issued the October Manifesto, which created the Duma. For 10 points, name this tsar whose hemophiliac son Alexei was treated by Rasputin, and whose abdication ended Romanov and tsarist rule during the start of the Russian Revolution. ANSWER: Nicholas II of Russia [or Nikolai Aleksandrovich Romanov; prompt on Nicholas] 15. One character in this play lives with Miss Pearl and has to be bailed out of jail for disturbing the peace. Another character in this work is the seven year-old girl Raynell, and another character in this play has a metal plate in his head and believes he is the Archangel Gabriel. The protagonist of this work has an affair with Alberta who dies in childbirth, and his friend Bono listens to his complaints while both work as garbage men. The protagonist of this play wont let his son Cory accept a football scholarship due to his own failed aspirations of playing baseball. For 10 points, name this drama about the family of Troy Maxon, a play by August Wilson. ANSWER: Fences 16. This citys Castril Palace is located in its Ajsaris district, and its gitano district houses the Sacromonte Abbey in which Saint Caecilius was martyred. The Court of the Water Channel sits in its Generalife Palace, and this city is located on the confluence of the Beiro, Genil, and Darro Rivers. This provincial capital sits near the Sierra Nevada range and houses the palace of Charles V. This citys most famous feature sits in the Assabica valley and contains the Gate of Pomegranates and the Court of the Lions, both examples of Andalusias Moorish influence. For 10 points, name this Spanish city, home to the Alhambra. ANSWER: Granada 17. This thinker introduced his namesake triangles linking consumer spending and production time in his Prices and Production. He distinguished between thesis and nomos in the three-volume Law, Legislation, and Liberty. This organizer of the Mont Pelerin Society distinguished his outlook from the title one in Why I Am Not a Conservative. One work by this author includes a chapter on The Socialist Roots of Naziism and warns against conditions leading to collectivization and the title oppression. For 10 points, name this Austrian economist who described the consequences of central planning in The Road to Serfdom. ANSWER: Friedrich August von Hayek 18. This artist added Pharoah Sanders and Rasheed Ali to his usual quartet for the album Meditations. His collaborations with bass clarinetist Eric Dolphy include the album Africa/Brass, which contains a reworking of Greensleeves by this artists long-time pianist, McCoy Tyner. One of his albums contains a track named for the bassist Paul Chambers, Mr. P.C., and the ballad, Naima. Sections titled Acknowledgment and Pursuance form parts of a later spiritual album. For 10 points, name this tenor saxophonist whose notey, arpeggiated style was described as sheets of sound and can be found on the albums Giant Steps and A Love Supreme. ANSWER: John Coltrane 19. One type of this reaction uses DMSO and oxalyl choloride at about negative 78 degrees Celsius to generate a ketone, and another type can use peracids to convert cyclic ketones into lactones. In addition to the type named for Swern, a reaction of this type catalyzed by chromium trioxide, its namesakes reagent, converts secondary alcohols into ketones. The Baeyer-Villiger and Jones are types of this reaction, for which a Lewis structure can be employed to determine its namesake state. For 10 points, name this type of reaction in which an atom loses an electron, contrasted with a reduction. ANSWER: oxidation 20. The first king of this nation got the steel to make a royal crown through his victory at the Battle of Plevna. The far-right Legion of the Archangel Michael spawned the fascist Iron Guard in this country. One dictator in this country lost support for his rule after he ordered protestors supporting Laszlo Tokes in Timisoara to be fired upon. That ruler of this country succeeded Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and was killed while trying to flee this country with his wife Elena on Christmas Day. For 10 points, name this eastern European country that was ruled by a Communist regime until a 1989 revolution against Nicolae Ceausescus rule in Bucharest. ANSWER: Romania

21. Widda Machree and Kelly argue about the price of a cow in this author's one-act work Time to Go, while this author wrote a play in which Stoke and Poges attempt to restore a Tudor home. This author of Purple Dust wrote about a demon bird that terrorizes Mauthraun in Cock-a-Doodle Dandy, and this author wrote a play in which Nora Clitheroe goes mad after her husband Jack is killed on Easter. In another work, Joxer Daly often gets Jack Boyle drunk. For 10 points, name this Irish playwright who wrote The Plough and the Stars and Juno and the Paycock. ANSWER: Sean OCasey [or Sen Cathasaigh; or John Casey]

Bonuses: 1. This mountain range is the location of Harney Peak and Devils Tower National Monument. For 10 points each: [10] Name this mountain range located in South Dakota and Wyoming, the site of Crazy Horse Memorial and Mount Rushmore. ANSWER: Black Hills range [or Pah Spa] [10] This second-largest city in South Dakota is often called the Gateway to the Black Hills. This home of the Dahl Arts Center gains much of its income from its Ellsworth Air Force Base. ANSWER: Rapid City [10] The Oglala Lakota tribe co-owns this national park located in South Dakota. Among its jagged features are the Sharps Formation and the Yellow Mounds, and this region is also known for its large deposits of dinosaur fossils. ANSWER: Badlands National Park 2. This man put down an apostasy controversy known as the riddah. For 10 points each: [10] Name this leader revered by Sunnis as the first male convert to Islam, Muhammads chief advisor. ANSWER: Abu Bakr [or Khalifat-ul-Rasul; or Abdullah ibn Abi Qahafa] [10] Sunnis believe that Abu Bakr was the first man given this designation as the successor of Muhammad. The first four holders of this position were called rightly guided, or rashidun. ANSWER: caliphs [10] Abu Bakr accompanied Muhammad on his journey to this city during the Hijra. ANSWER: Medina [or Yathrib] 3. Name some things in math that can involve matrices, for 10 points each: [10] Single-row or single-column matrices can represent these n-tuples of numbers; in two or three-dimensional space, they are shown as arrows drawn from the origin to a specific coordinate. They can be multiplied through both inner and outer products. ANSWER: vectors [accept row vectors or column vectors] [10] These functions between two vector spaces have the properties that if T is one of them, then t of x plus y equals t of x plus t of y, and t of a times x equals a times t of x. ANSWER: linear transformations [or linear maps; prompt on partial answer] [10] Transition matrices can be employed in modeling these random processes where the probability of entering a particular next state depends only on the current state. ANSWER: finite Markov chains [or Markov proccess] 4. This countrys first president, Gregoire Kayibanda, came to power after the Gitarama Coup. For 10 points each: [10] Name this nation in which the 1994 assassination of its president Juvnal Habyarimana sparked a genocide of Tutsi. ANSWER: Republic of Rwanda [10] The Tutsi genocide was committed by members of this ethnic majority of Rwanda, of which Habyarimana was a member. ANSWER: Hutus [10] Hutu and Tutsi conflict has also affected this neighboring country of Rwanda, whose president Cyprien Ntaryamira was killed along with Habyarimana in 1994. ANSWER: Republic of Burundi 5. This group declared a ceasefire in September 2010 after an earlier, broken permanent ceasefire in 2006. For 10 points each: [10] Name this group responsible for assassinating Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco in 1973 and accused by some of carrying out some 2004 train bombings in a capital city. ANSWER: Euskadi Ta Askatasuna [10] The ETA want freedom for this ethnic group who speak a language isolate and are centered in a namesake region in France and Spain including Bilbao. ANSWER: Basques [or Vascos or Euskaldunak or Euskotarak] [10] This man decided to negotiate with the ETA after the 2006 ceasefire. Despite that ceasefire lasting under a year and costing him political capital, he is still the Prime Minister of Spain.

ANSWER: Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero 6. The protagonist of this novel meets Yukio on a train and claims to be an expert on ballet. For 10 points each: [10] Identify this novel in which Shimamura and Komako have an affair in a hot spring resort town in the title winter location in Japan. ANSWER: Snow Country [or Yukiguni] [10] This author included depictions of a traditional tea ceremony in his Thousand Cranes, and also wrote The Sound of the Mountain and Snow Country. ANSWER: Kawabata Yasunari [10] In this Kawabata novel, Honnimbo Shusai stays in a hospital during a match with Otake, who makes the controversial move 121 while playing a long match of the title game. ANSWER: The Master of Go [accept Meijin] 7. Name the following from the early settling of the English in America, for 10 points each. [10] This colony that went through a starving time was the first permanent English settlement in America. Its inhabitants included John Rolfe, the husband of Pocahontas, and John Smith. ANSWER: Jamestown Colony [10] This island colony was led in its second iteration by John White, the grandfather of Virginia Dare, who left it to gather supplies from England. On his return, this colony had no people and the word Croatoan carved into a tree. ANSWER: Roanoke Colony [10] This man wanted to found a colony for debtors in America and eventually got a charter from George II to start the colony of Georgia. ANSWER: James Edward Oglethorpe 8. This work tells of a sweetish sickness that seems to affect everything around the protagonist, who stays in Bouville. For 10 points each: [10] Identify this novel whose characters include one called the autodidact and Francoise, who has a relationship with the protagonist Antoine Roquentin. ANSWER: Nausea [or La Nausee] [10] This play is a version of the Orestes myth in which the Furies are represented by the title creatures. ANSWER: The Flies [or Les Mouches] [10] This author of Nausea and The Flies wrote about Lizzie in The Respectful Prostitute and wrote Hell is other people in his play No Exit. ANSWER: Jean-Paul Sartre 9. Answer some questions about the art and architecture of Brazil, for 10 points each. [10] Heitor da Silva Costa designed this giant statue of Jesus with hands outstretched in a cross formation that stands atop Mt. Corcovado, overlooking Rio de Janeiro. ANSWER: Statue of Christ the Redeemer [or Cristo Redentor; prompt on things like statue of christ] [10] Along with Lucio Costa, this architect was commissioned to design buildings for Brazils capital, Brasilia. He has also worked on Israels University of Haifa. ANSWER: Oscar Niemeyer [10] In 2006, Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, best known for his design for the Saint Peter Chapel in Sao Paolo, won this prestigious architecture prize, awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation. ANSWER: Pritzker Prize 10. The gradient of this quantity acts as the driving force in diffusion. For 10 points each: [10] Name this quantity, often symbolized mu, that, for a component in solution, is equal to the derivative of total internal energy with respect to number of particles of the component. ANSWER: chemical potential [prompt on potential] [10] For an ideal free gas of electrons, the chemical potential is the Fermi energy at this temperature. This temperature is equal to zero kelvin. ANSWER: absolute zero [10] Chemical potential for solutes at nonstandard states can be calculated given the mole fraction and this quantity for the solution. This dimensionless quantity can be calculated by the Davies or Debye-Huckel equations. ANSWER: activity coefficient [do not accept or prompt on activity]

11. Name some deities based on their relationship to Ra, for 10 points each. [10] This god of reading and writing with the head of an ibis was Ras representative. ANSWER: Thoth [10] Ra was later syncretized with this Theban god, whose name he gained. Akhenatens son changed his name from referencing the sun god Aten to referencing this one. ANSWER: Amun [10] Ra once got this lion-headed consort of Ptah drunk on 7,000 jugs of beer and pomegranate juice, preventing her from killing everything in Egypt. ANSWER: Sekhmet 12. Name the following battles between Greeks and Persians, for 10 points each. [10] This victory for the mostly Athenian Greek side under Miltiades also saw the dispatching of the runner Pheidippides to Sparta. ANSWER: Battle of Marathon [10] In this battle, troops under Leonidas fought to the death against the forces of Xerxes I in a small pass. ANSWER: Battle of Thermopylae [10] Taking place at the same time as Thermopylae, this sea battle ended with a Greek withdrawal after the news of the loss at Thermopylae was received. ANSWER: Battle of Artemisium 13. This author described Saxon edifices as characterized by solidity, heaviness, and rude simplicity in his Essay on Norman Architecture. For 10 points each: [10] Name this British writer who described Selimas passing in his poem Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes. ANSWER: Thomas Gray [10] This Gray poem notes that the ploughman homeward plods his weary way, and is the origin of the phrases far from the madding crowd and some mute inglorious Milton. ANSWER: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard [10] Gray wrote an Ode on a Distant Prospect of this institution, which concludes by saying [W]here ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise. ANSWER: Eton College [accept Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College] 14. One attempt to describe the radiation given off by these objects was the RayleighJeans law. For 10 points each: [10] Name these objects that absorb all radiation that hits them. ANSWER: blackbodies [or blackbody] [10] This man's law for blackbody radiation paved the way for the development of quantum physics in that the emitted radiation is a multiple of his namesake constant. ANSWER: Max Planck [10] Planck's law reduces to the Rayleigh-Jeans law when hv is much less than the product of Boltzmann's constant with this quantity. ANSWER: T [or temperature] 15. His Opus 33 Russian String Quartets include one with a false ending, nicknamed The Joke. For 10 points each: [10] Name this composer whose other work for string quartet include his Emperor Quartet, which uses the tune of the German national anthem, and a transcription of his oratorio The Seven Last Words of Christ. ANSWER: Franz Joseph Haydn [10] This is the geographical name given to Haydns final twelve symphonies, including ones nicknamed Drumroll, Clock, and Surprise after their eponymous gimmicks. ANSWER: London Symphonies [10] A particularly gimmicky Haydn symphony is this one, in which the musicians leave the stage one-by-one during the final adagio, until only two violins are left playing at the end. ANSWER: Symphony No. 45 in F-sharp minor, Farewell [accept either]

16. This man succeeded Erich Ollenhauer as leader of the SPD and agreed to the Oder-Neisse Line as Polands western border. For 10 points each: [10] Name this leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971 and resigned after the Guillaume affair. ANSWER: Willy Brandt [or Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm] [10] Brandt served as the chancellor of this nation, which was ruled from Bonn by such men as Konrad Adenauer and Helmut Kohl until its 1990 reunification with another country. ANSWER: West Germany [or Federal Republic of Germany; or FRG; or Westdeutschland; or Bundesrepublik Deutschland; or BRD] [10] Brandt repudiated the Hallstein Doctrine and attempted a change through rapprochement with Soviet Bloc countries by use of this policy, which included the recognition of East Germany. ANSWER: Neue Ostpolitik 17. Ozzie Freedman threatens to commit suicide unless the pupils of his synagogue profess faith in Jesus Christ in this authors short story Conversion of the Jews. For 10 points each: [10] Name this author of Epstein and Defender of the Faith who collected those stories in Goodbye, Columbus and who also wrote American Pastoral. ANSWER: Philip Milton Roth [10] Philip Roth wrote this novel consisting of a monologue by its title character Alexander to his psychiatrist Dr. Spielvogel. He describes his escapades with such women as The Monkey. ANSWER: Portnoy's Complaint [10] This character created by Philip Roth is an author who appears in My Life As a Man and apprentices to the author E. I. Lonoff in The Ghost Writer. A later novel is about this character Unbound. ANSWER: Nathan Zuckerman 18. Two men carry the title body on a bier in front of a large landscape in this artists The Funeral of Phocion. For 10 points each: [10] Name this French painter who depicted four females dancing in a circle in his A Dance to the Music of Time. ANSWER: Nicholas Poussin [10] Poussin did two series of paintings depicting these ceremonies. The National Gallery of Art in D.C. houses the Baptism from the first series, which is missing a painting of Penance, which was destroyed. ANSWER: The Seven Sacraments [10] Poussin also painted a depiction of the abduction or rape of these women. Jacques-Louis David later painted their intervention. ANSWER: The Sabine Women 19. Unlike homoplasy, this term implies that the trait is present in the common ancestor. For 10 points each: [10] Name this term that refers to traits that have a common origin that is often contrasted with analogous. ANSWER: homologous [10] All organisms that share a homologous trait make up one of these. This is defined as the group consisting of an organism and all descendant organisms on a phylogenetic tree. ANSWER: clade [10] Reptiles are an example of this sort of taxonomic group that does not make up a clade, meaning not all descendants of a common ancestor are included. ANSWER: paraphyletic 20. This welfare economist wrote a series of essays about his home nation, The Argumentative Indian. For 10 points each: [10] Name this author of Collective Choice and Social Welfare. ANSWER: Amartya Kumar Sen [10] In one work, Sen argued that the optimality criterion named for this man contradicted Mills notion of liberalism. That criterion states that nobody can be made better off without someone else being made worse off. ANSWER: Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto [10] Sen also wrote about entitlements and ownership in a work titled for poverty and these events, catastrophic shortages of food. ANSWER: famines

21. This work begins with an introduction addressed to an English friend of its author, and says that Fortune favors the fool. For 10 points each: [10] Name this 1509 work in which the title character, who cant be confused with Minerva, talks about herself and trashes lawyers, philosophers, the clergy, and so on. ANSWER: The Praise of Folly [or Encomium Moriae; or Moriae Encomium] [10] The Praise of Folly was written by this Dutch humanist who also wrote the rhetorical guide Copia and a satire of a pope, Julius Excluded from Heaven. ANSWER: Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam [or Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus] [10] The Latin title of The Praise of Folly is a pun on the name of this Englishman, who opposed Henry VIIIs marriage to Anne Boleyn and wrote Utopia. ANSWER: Thomas More

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