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A character created by this author smashes her forehead against a table during her forced second marriage. In that story by this author, a woman who asks the narrator questions about the afterlife is metaphorically called the “New Year’s Sacrifice.” A (15[1])tea shop owner in a story by this author uses profits to buy a folk cure to (15[1])unsuccessfully save their son from tuberculosis, the title “Medicine.” A (15[1])man who hasn't seen the moon in 30 years (15[1])thinks his brother (*) killed his sister in a story by this author that ends with the line, “Save the children…” That story by this author depicts a character who reads “Eat People” in a book and was inspired by a Gogol story of the same title. The collection (-5[1])Call to Arms (10[1])is by, (-5[1])for 10 points, what Chinese author of the short story “Diary of a Madman”? (10[2])■END■

ANSWER: Lu Xun [or Zhou Zhangshou]
<Jay Kim, World Literature>
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2024 Penn Bowl Harvard10/26/2024Y475%0%25%112.00
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