Question

In a novel, this woman relays the story of how she found the skeletons of dead baby birds because her lover set a trap that dissuaded the older birds from returning to the nest. Seeing a lock of this woman’s hair on the floor, a man mixes strands of his hair with hers, and fits them into her locket. The narrator of a novel sees this woman’s name scrawled several times on a mildewy ledge, each time with a different (*) surname. A different man is distraught when that narrator shuts the window the former believes this woman’s ghost is attempting to slip through. (10[1])This woman isolates herself while pregnant with the baby of Edgar Linton, regretting how she told a low-class orphan that she couldn't marry him. For 10 points, name this woman who haunts her love interest Heathcliff from beyond the grave (10[1])in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: Catherine Earnshaw [or Catherine Linton; or Catherine Heathcliff; accept Catherine’s ghost or equivalents; prompt on Linton before mention; prompt on Earnshaw; reject “Cathy Linton”; reject "Heathcliff" alone]
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Cindy GaoHarvardMIT10210
Christopher DechBrandeisBrown14210
Cecile ThomasTuftsBoston College14810
Robin LeeBoston CollegeTufts1480

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2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y3100%0%0%130.67
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