In this novel, the obese Mrs. Manson Mingott has a stroke when she hears from Regina that Julius Beaufort’s bank has collapsed. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this novel in which Newland Archer tries to cheat on his fiancee May Welland with her cousin, the Polish Countess and New York socialite Ellen Olenska.
ANSWER: The Age of Innocence
[10e] This author of The Age of Innocence also wrote about Mattie Silver sledding into a tree with the title character in Ethan Frome.
ANSWER: Edith Wharton
[10h] The Age of Innocence opens with Newland watching Christine Nilsson, who has this career. Thea Kronborg moves from Moonstone to Chicago to pursue this career in a Willa Cather novel.
ANSWER: opera performance [accept Faust; prompt on show; prompt on singing or performing] (The Willa Cather novel is The Song of the Lark.)
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