Packet G: Tossup 20

A character in this novel asks his brother to cover up his suicide by telling their mother that he died from being kicked by a horse. (10[1])A one-legged veteran in this novel spurs his wife to drown herself when he gives her gonorrhea and amasses a fortune by lying about his role in the Civil War. (10[1])As a girl, (-5[1])a character in this novel (10[1])possibly causes her (10[1])teacher’s suicide (10[1])and fakes her death in a fire that (10[1])kills her parents. (10[3])In this novel, (10[4])the Chinese (10[1])immigrant (-5[1])Lee (10[3]-5[1])contrasts (10[2])various (10[4])translations (10[3]-5[1])of the Hebrew (10[1])word (10[1])for (10[3])“thou (10[1])mayest,” (10[1]-5[1])timshel. (10[5])After (10[1])her neighbor (10[5])Samuel Hamilton (10[2])helps with the (10[1])birth of her twins, (10[1])the heartless Cathy Ames (10[1])shoots her husband (10[1])Adam in this novel (10[1])at their farm (10[1])in Salinas Valley. For 10 points, (10[3])Cal (-5[1])and Aron Trask stand in (10[1])for (10[1])Cain and Abel (10[2])in (10[1])what (10[1])novel (10[2])by (10[2])John Steinbeck? (10[2]0[1])■END■ (10[9]0[3])

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