After being quartered with his battalion in this location, the narrator of a novel states “I had been there before; I knew all about it.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this location inhabited by a stamp-collecting earl. After her father returns from Venice to this location to die, Julia abandons her plans to divorce her husband.
ANSWER: Brideshead Manor [accept the Marchmain estate]
[10e] Charles Ryder befriends the Marchmains in this author’s novel Brideshead Revisited.
ANSWER: Evelyn Waugh
[10h] Though not stated explicitly, Ryder’s use of “an ancient, newly learned form of words” when returning to Brideshead in the epilogue implies that he has since taken this action.
ANSWER: converting to Roman Catholicism [accept word forms; prompt on converting; prompt on converting to Christianity; reject “converting to Anglicanism,” or any answers indicating conversion to a sect other than Roman Catholicism]
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