Packet D: Tossup 14

A woman in this novel recounts a childhood memory of buying apricots with her friend when they could not afford entry to a visiting circus. At the start of this novel, a boy ignores instructions to wait in a store when his cat gets stuck (-5[1])up (10[1])a telegraph pole. (10[3])After his friend (10[1])Amédée (10[2])dies (-5[1])of (10[1]-5[1])appendicitis, a would-be (10[1])law (10[1])student in this novel has an affair with a (10[1])married woman, whose husband (10[1])kills (-5[1])them under a white mulberry (10[1])tree. (10[3]-5[1])This novel’s protagonist is kind to the elderly, mystical animal lover (10[1])Crazy Ivar. (-5[3])This novel’s (-5[1])two main siblings, who respectively (-5[1])fall in love with Marie Shabata (10[1]-5[2])and Carl Linstrum, are named Emil and (10[1])Alexandra. (-5[1])For 10 points, (-5[1])a Nebraska (-5[1])farm is the setting (10[2]-5[1])of what (10[1])novel (10[1]-5[1])about the Swedish-American (10[1]-5[2])Bergson family (10[4])by (-5[1])Willa Cather? (10[2])■END■ (10[20]0[23])

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