Round 10: 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 up a telegraph pole. (10[1])After his friend Amédée dies of appendicitis, a would-be law student in this novel has an affair with a married woman, whose husband kills them under a white mulberry tree. This novel’s protagonist is kind to the elderly, mystical animal lover Crazy Ivar. (-5[1])This novel’s two main siblings, who respectively fall in love with Marie Shabata and Carl Linstrum, are named Emil and Alexandra. For 10 points, a Nebraska farm is the setting of what novel about the Swedish-American (-5[1])Bergson family by Willa Cather? ■END■ (10[2]0[2])

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