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 bootlegger Lee Goodwin is represented at a (-5[1])murder trial by the lawyer Horace Benbow. In a novel by this author, a man buys a set of (*) false teeth and a gramophone, and then marries a woman from whom he had borrowed (10[1]-5[1])some spades. A dead woman created by this author is put into her wedding dress and (10[1])a mosquito-net veil before being placed backwards into a coffin (10[1])made “on the bevel” by Cash. For 10 points, what author who created Temple Drake in Sanctuary wrote about the burial of Addie Bundren in As (10[1])I Lay Dying? ■END■

ANSWER: William (Cuthbert) Faulkner
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Nathan ZhangHutto HipposRollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang69-5
Raymond WangHutto HipposCornell C++103-5
Richard NiuCornell B-The Enrique Trastamara Military Academy B10310
Mike CheyneRollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne GangHutto Hippos11910
Mike CheyneRollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne GangWhat is BH! And you are asking me? BHSU12910
Andrew ZengCornell C++Hutto Hippos15510

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2023 BHSU @ Maryland03/11/2023Y3100%0%33%143.00
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