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After hearing coughing from down the hall, this novel’s protagonist finds a man in a filthy room who asks him to boil water for the spaghetti he is making. In this novel, a trumpeter kills his cats after another character is impaled while trying to make love to the Niobe’s (20[2])(“nigh-OH-bee’s”) figurehead. (20[1])This novel’s (20[2])protagonist claims (20[1])to be Jesus while leading (20[1])a gang of children called the (20[1])(*) Dusters. (10[9])Alfred, (10[1])the father of this novel’s protagonist, (10[1])is shot while choking (10[1])on his party pin. (10[1])Cat and Mouse and (10[1])Dog Years chronologically (10[1]0[1])follow this novel, (10[1])whose protagonist can break glass with his scream (10[4])and decides to stop growing at age three. (10[2]0[1])Oskar Matzerath is the protagonist of, for 10 points, what novel by Günter Grass? ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

ANSWER: The Tin Drum [or Die Blechtrommel]
<Michael Bentley, Literature - European - Long Fiction&gt; ~22840~ &lt;Editor: Joseph Krol>
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