Round 9: 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 getting stabbed in a hotel after this condition causes him to fall down a flight of stairs. The son of “Stinking” Lizaveta confesses to using this condition as an alibi for murder (10[1])to a character who is visited by the devil during (10[1])a dream. In another novel, a character with this condition returns to a Swiss sanatorium after learning that Nastasya (-5[1])Filippovna (10[1]-5[1])was murdered by Rogozhin. Smerdyakov suffers from, for 10 points, what condition (10[1])that afflicts Prince Myshkin in (10[1])The Idiot (-5[1])also afflicted (0[1])Fyodor Dostoevsky? ■END■ (0[4])

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