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After one of these events, a character conducts what is euphemistically called “his first experiment in the Art of Love” with the maid Aroma. During one of these events, a character listens to a song suite titled for“Golden Days” and reads a couplet beginning “Truth becomes fiction when the fiction’s true.” A novel’s fifth chapter describes (15[1])one of these events in which a character reads allegorical poems about the 12 Beauties of Jīnlíng in the Land of (*) Illusion. In most translations, this kind of event titles a novel in which a priest and a monk take a piece of Nǚwā’s heavenly wall to the mortal world. In that novel titled for this sort of event, Jiǎ Bǎoyù is born (10[1])with a piece of jade in his mouth. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])a Cáo Xuěqín novel is often translated as what sort of event“of the Red Chamber?” ■END■

ANSWER: dreams [or mèng; accept Dream of the Red Chamber, A Dream of Red Mansions, or Hónglóu Mèng; prompt on The Story of the Stone or Shítou with “What sort of event provides the other common title?”] (All clues use volume one of the Hawkes translation, Golden Days.)
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Raymond ChenToronto Penguin World WarWaterloo Cali5615
Tony ChenToronto Tony Jingyu Chen eats quizbowlToronto Pilk11910
Jared HeWaterloo BustToronto Sprout12710
Ishan JoshiOttawaToronto cDNA13010

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2024 Booster Shot (Columbia)02/23/2024Y667%0%50%115.25
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo)02/23/2024Y4100%25%0%108.00
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)03/02/2024Y4100%0%25%136.50
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