Round 2: 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 (10[1])a telegraph pole. 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 (-5[1])fall in love with Marie Shabata (10[1]-5[1])and Carl Linstrum, are named Emil and (10[1])Alexandra. For 10 points, a Nebraska farm is the setting of what novel about the Swedish-American Bergson family by (-5[1])Willa Cather? ■END■ (10[3]0[2])

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