Round 4: 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. (10[1])The son of “Stinking” Lizaveta (10[1])confesses to using (10[1])this condition as an alibi for murder to a character who is (10[1])visited (10[1])by the devil during a dream. In another novel, a character with this condition returns to a Swiss sanatorium (-5[1])after learning that Nastasya Filippovna was murdered by Rogozhin. Smerdyakov suffers from, for 10 points, what condition that afflicts Prince Myshkin in The Idiot also afflicted (10[1])Fyodor Dostoevsky? ■END■ (10[2])

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