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 kills her parents. In this novel, (10[1])the Chinese immigrant Lee (-5[1])contrasts various translations of the Hebrew word (10[1])for “thou mayest,” timshel. After her neighbor (10[1])Samuel Hamilton helps with the birth of her twins, the heartless Cathy Ames shoots her husband Adam in this novel at their farm in Salinas Valley. For 10 points, (10[1])Cal (-5[1])and Aron Trask stand in for Cain and Abel (10[1])in what novel (10[1])by John Steinbeck? (10[1])■END■ (10[4])

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