A character in this novel says his friend “knows we're not Croesuses” (“CREE-susses”) to assuage his father's guilt over a house with six cramped rooms, including a study with a broken battery. While watching swallows fly above an arbor, a man in this novel stifles the urge to recite poetry after thinking about a Ludwig Büchner book. Before dying, a mad woman (15[1])in this novel etches a cross into a ring her lover had engraved with a (*) Sphinx. While a woman prepares hot cocoa, (-5[1])a man in this novel returns to the home covered in mud from collecting frogs to dissect. That man in this novel gets a kiss from Madame Odintsova (-5[1])while dying of an infection (10[1])incurred by a botched autopsy. (10[1])A Russian manor is upended by the nihilist ideals of Bazarov in, for 10 points, what novel by Ivan (10[1])Turgenev? ■END■