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A novel titled for this location was adapted to focus on gay men in New York in Matthew López’s play The Inheritance. In this location, boxes of books and furniture are opened without permission by Miss Avery. Residents around this location stick pigs’ teeth into a wych-elm (“witch-elm”), believing that it could cure toothaches. (-5[1])A character who is tricked into coming to this title location hears goblins while listening to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. (10[1])This location titles (-5[1])a novel with the epigraph “Only connect.” In a novel titled (10[1])for this location, a bookcase falls and triggers the death of Leonard Bast. (-5[1])Henry Wilcox refused to acknowledge a handwritten note about giving this title house away to Margaret Schlegel. For 10 points, what country house titles a novel by E. M. Forster? ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

ANSWER: Howards End
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