Question

In a novel by this author, a corpse falls out of a casket onto a wreath, causing a wire to pull out a wax stopper filling a bullet hole in its head. Gene serves liquor during a funeral held at a dance hall in a novel by this author. This author described the gangster Red’s “jazz-style” funeral in a novel in which the (-5[1])bootlegger Lee Goodwin is represented at a murder trial by the lawyer Horace Benbow. In a novel (-5[1])by this author, a man buys a set of (*) false teeth and a gramophone, and then marries a woman from whom he had borrowed some spades. A dead woman created by this author is put into her wedding dress and a mosquito-net veil before being placed backwards into a coffin made “on the bevel” (10[1])by Cash. For 10 points, what author (10[1])who created Temple Drake in Sanctuary wrote about the burial of Addie Bundren in As I Lay Dying? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: William (Cuthbert) Faulkner
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Anuttam RamjiBerkeley B[Insert Lawyer Joke Here]62-5
Tim MorrisonStanford AStanford B79-5
Ryan SunBerkeley AIt's Joever13310
Stephen Liu[Insert Lawyer Joke Here]Berkeley B14010
Allan LeeStanford BStanford A15910

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