Question

A boy in this family with a “delicate mauve face” reads a book, smiling and kissing its pages, while his father inaudibly calls his name. An inner monologue recalls the suicide of a member of this family with a “redlabelled bottle” that was ruled a “death by misadventure.” A person in this family has an imagined conversation with his grandfather Virag, who emigrated from Hungary. That man in this family hallucinates an apparition of his stillborn son during a visit to (*) Bella Cohen’s brothel. A woman who married (10[1])into this family asks her husband the meaning of the word “metempsychosis” in their house on Eccles Street. A man in this family peeps on Gerty Macdowell and avoids (10[1])Blazes Boylan over the course of June (10[1])16, 1904. For 10 points, name this family, whose patriarch Leopold wanders Dublin in Ulysses. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Bloom
<HG, British Literature>
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Ned TagtmeierChicago AIllinois Blue8710
Michael HundingIllinois OrangeNotre Dame11610
Jay KimChicago BPurdue A12310
Logan MathisSIUEPurdue B13910

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