Round 7: Tossup 20

A character in this novel asks his brother to cover up his suicide by telling their mother that he died from being kicked by a horse. A one-legged veteran in this novel spurs his wife to drown herself when he gives her gonorrhea and amasses a fortune by lying about his role in the Civil War. As a girl, a character in this novel possibly causes her teacher’s suicide and fakes her death in a fire that kills her parents. In this novel, the Chinese immigrant Lee contrasts various (10[1])translations of the Hebrew (10[1])word for “thou mayest,” timshel. After her neighbor (10[1])Samuel Hamilton helps with the birth of her twins, the heartless Cathy Ames shoots her husband Adam in this novel at their farm in Salinas Valley. For 10 points, Cal and Aron Trask stand in for Cain and Abel in what novel by John Steinbeck? ■END■ (10[1])

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