Round 6: 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. After his friend Amédée dies of appendicitis, a would-be (10[1])law student in this novel has an affair with a married woman, whose husband (10[1])kills (-5[1])them under a white mulberry tree. This novel’s protagonist is kind to the elderly, mystical animal lover (10[1])Crazy Ivar. This novel’s two main siblings, who respectively fall in love with Marie Shabata (-5[1])and Carl Linstrum, are named Emil and Alexandra. For 10 points, (-5[1])a Nebraska farm is the setting of what (10[1])novel about the Swedish-American Bergson family by Willa Cather? ■END■ (0[2])

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