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This work’s protagonist hallucinates her doctor carrying an infant on a bayonet and casting it into a poisonous well. A man in this work says that Florence Nightingale ruined wars because soldiers should be allowed to “perish where they fall.” Characters cannot recall this work’s title spiritual past the line “done taken my lover away.” (10[1])In this work, a man notes that a sapping party’s life expectancy is nine minutes. Lusk Committee members pressure people to buy Liberty Bonds in this work, which titles a collection (10[1])of three pieces that the author (-5[1])refused to call “novellas.” (-5[1])This work was inspired by its author’s time at the (10[1])Rocky Mountain News. (-5[1])In this work, Dr. (10[1])Hildesheim treats Miranda, (10[1])who learns that Adam (10[1]-5[1])Barclay died of the same disease that she survived. (-5[1])For 10 points, name this short novel about the Spanish flu by (10[1])Katherine (-5[1])Anne Porter. ■END■ (10[8]0[9])

ANSWER: Pale Horse, Pale Rider
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2024 ACF Nationals2024-04-21Y2171%0%29%125.47

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jakob MyersIndianaToronto A5410
Jeffrey FungHarvardNYU8510
Jared HeWaterlooChicago D91-5
Andrew EllisKentuckyVirginia95-5
Charles HangWUSTL AJohns Hopkins10510
Ben WismathToronto BBerkeley A108-5
Matt JacksonChicago AWUSTL B11210
Arthur Delot-VilainYale ACornell B11510
Nermeen RahmanChicago CClaremont Colleges119-5
Will OrrYale BStanford11910
Yashwanth BajjiMichiganCornell A128-5
Ryan SunBerkeley BNorth Carolina A14010
Ashish SubramanianDukeChicago B141-5
Shiv SeshanChicago DWaterloo1440
Dean Ah NowClaremont CollegesChicago C14410
Nicolas EdwardsMcGillColumbia A1440
Moses KitakuleColumbia AMcGill1440
Jack RadoColumbia BNorth Carolina B1440
Richard NiuCornell AMichigan14410
Henry CafaroChicago BDuke1440
Tegan KapadiaGeorgia TechArizona State14410
Guy IndoranteIowa StateFlorida14410
Jason HongBrownMinnesota A14410
Ethan AshbrookMinnesota ABrown1440
Andrew SalijNorthwesternTruman State14410
Connor MayersMarylandPurdue1440
Eylon CaplanPurdueMaryland1440
Robert FreemanSouth CarolinaTexas14410
Eve FleisigBerkeley AToronto B14410
Joseph ChambersVirginiaKentucky1440