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When a woman encounters this character riding a horse on a country road, she notices this character’s new habit of narrowing her eyes when she thinks. A passage describing the candle by which this character read “that book filled with anxieties, deceptions, griefs and evils” mentions her recurring nightmare of a peasant “working over some iron.” While looking at a painting, this character admires the pity in the face of Jesus standing next to Pontius Pilate. A lie that this character died is told to her son by the pious Countess (*) Lydia. After this character nearly dies giving birth, her lover shoots himself in the chest, but he recovers and signs up for a position in (-5[1])Tashkent. (-5[1])This character confesses her infidelity after her lover breaks the back of his horse Frou-Frou (10[1])during a race. For 10 points, name this character who has an affair with Count Vronsky in a novel by Leo Tolstoy. ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Anna Karenina [or Anna Arkadyevna Karenina; accept either underlined portion]
<Literature - European Literature - Short Fiction>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Taylor HarveyCry of the Common LoonA is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs115-5
Eve FleisigBerkeleyStanford+116-5
Jason GolfinosWhere are the ACF Nationals recordings?number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku13110
Anderson WangA is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairsCry of the Common Loon15410
Tim MorrisonStanford+Berkeley15410

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2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y3100%0%67%146.33
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College12/14/2024Y3100%33%33%124.67