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Separately published fragments detail this character’s journey to Tauris and his stay in Odessa. This character is last seen standing in “desolation / as if by thunder struck” before he hears a clink of spurs behind him in a 2008 translation by Stanley Mitchell. In a dream sequence, this man presides over a group of monsters in a hut which a woman is dragged to by a talking bear. This man claims that he would be a bad husband in a “sermon” used to reject a woman who wrote a love letter (10[1])to him in French. This protagonist angers Zaretsky by bringing his servant Guillot (10[1])to an event that is precipitated when this man dances (-5[1])with Olga at Tatiana’s (10[1])name-day (-5[1])celebration. Lensky is killed in a duel by, for 10 points, what title character of a verse novel by Alexander Pushkin? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Eugene Onegin [or Eugene; or Yevgeny Onegin]
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Audrey Cho (DII)HaverfordRowan9110
Sinecio Morales (DII)Johns HopkinsNYU B10410
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt (DII)NYU AVassar114-5
Andre WongColumbia CColumbia A11810
Jerry VinokurovJohn JayColumbia B119-5
William Groger (UG)Columbia BJohn Jay14010
Tom Doyle (UG)VassarNYU A14110

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