Round 5: 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. 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. As a girl, a character in this novel possibly causes her teacher’s suicide and fakes her death in a fire that (10[1])kills her parents. In this novel, the Chinese immigrant Lee contrasts various translations of the Hebrew word for “thou mayest,” timshel. After (10[1])her neighbor Samuel Hamilton helps with the birth of her twins, the heartless Cathy Ames shoots her husband Adam in this novel (10[1])at their farm in Salinas Valley. For 10 points, Cal and Aron Trask stand in for Cain and Abel in what novel (10[1])by John Steinbeck? ■END■

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