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A character at one of these places plays the same three notes on a reed while being confronted by a man who had previously attacked him. An action taken at one of these locations is compared to (-5[1])“knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.” In a poem titled for one of these locations, the speaker tells the addressee to “come to the (15[2])window.” At one of these places, the likely pimp (10[1])(*) Raymond’s arm is slashed by a knife. A poem set at one of these locations describes a place “swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight.”The heat of the sun at one of these locations supposedly causes Mersault (10[1])to shoot an Arab in The Stranger. For 10 points, (10[1])“ignorant armies clash at night” at what type of location in Dover in a poem by Matthew Arnold? (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: a beach [or “Dover Beach”; prompt on the sea or a seashore]
<Literature - European Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Ani PerumallaPenn State AVassar37-5
Andrew ZengStanfordOhio6415
Kevin ZhengMichigan BIowa State6415
Yashwanth BajjiMichigan ACase Western7310
Charles HangWUSTLMichigan C11110
Pajwal BhandariPenn State BNorth Carolina12110
Sam MacchiVassarPenn State A13910

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2024 Booster Shot (Columbia)02/23/2024Y6100%17%0%95.00
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo)02/23/2024Y4100%50%0%74.25
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)03/02/2024Y4100%0%0%113.75
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes)03/09/2024Y6100%33%17%95.33
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL)03/09/2024Y2100%50%0%92.00