Packet K: Tossup 14

A character with this condition receives a beating from a servant after being caught hanging cats and burying them with “great ceremony.” When asked to describe an execution, a character with this condition compares the face of a condemned man to a picture he saw in Basel. A character avoids (10[1])getting stabbed in a hotel (-5[1])after this condition causes him to fall down a flight of stairs. (10[4]-5[1])The son of “Stinking” (-5[1])Lizaveta (10[2]-5[1])confesses to using (10[1])this condition as an alibi (10[1])for murder (10[1]-5[1])to a character (10[2])who is (10[1])visited (10[1])by the devil during (10[1])a dream. (10[1])In another novel, a character with this condition (-5[1])returns to a Swiss sanatorium (10[2]-5[4])after (-5[3])learning (10[1])that (10[1]-5[1])Nastasya (-5[2])Filippovna (10[2]-5[2])was murdered by Rogozhin. Smerdyakov suffers from, (10[1])for 10 (-5[1])points, what condition (10[1])that afflicts Prince (-5[1])Myshkin (-5[1])in (10[1])The Idiot (10[1]-5[1])also (-5[1])afflicted (10[2]0[1])Fyodor Dostoevsky? ■END■ (10[10]0[28])

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