Question

It’s not the Trojan War, but the names of characters are repeated in the script with no dialogue in a play set during this conflict in which a talking dog named Odd-See accompanies Hero. A general returning from this conflict shouts out “She's guilty not medicine!” before dying of (15[1])poison. Zoe poisons herself to escape M'Closky in a play that premiered two years prior to this conflict, written by Dion (*) Boucicault. Christine and Adam (-5[1])Brant murder a general who returns from this war named Ezra Mannon in Eugene O'Neill's trilogy Mourning Becomes Electra. Asa Trenchard is the protagonist of Tom Taylor's play Our American Cousin, which was put on at Ford's Theatre during this war. For 10 points, name this war, the subject of some plays (10[1])centering on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. ■END■

ANSWER: American Civil War [or United States Civil War] (the play in the first line is Suzan-Lori Parks’ Father Comes Home From the Wars.)
<Noah Sheidlower, American Literature>
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Shahar SchwartzBerkeley ABerkeley B4915
AnuttamBerkeley CStanford74-5
MichalStanfordBerkeley C12610

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2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y3100%33%0%82.00
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y7100%29%14%86.29
2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal)10/28/2023Y2100%50%50%87.50
2023 Penn Bowl (South Central)10/28/2023Y3100%0%0%115.00
2023 Penn Bowl (UK)10/28/2023Y5100%20%20%101.60
2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo10/28/2023Y4100%25%0%93.25
2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC10/28/2023Y3100%0%33%118.67
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU10/28/2023Y2100%0%0%114.50