Question

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 tea shop owner in a story by this author uses profits to buy a folk cure to unsuccessfully save their son from tuberculosis, the title “Medicine.” A man who hasn't seen the moon in 30 years thinks his brother (*) killed his sister in a story by this author that ends with the line, “Save the children…” (10[2])That story by this author depicts a character who reads “Eat People” in a book and was inspired by a Gogol story of the (-5[1])same title. The collection Call to Arms is by, for 10 points, what Chinese author of the short story “Diary of a Madman”? (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: Lu Xun [or Zhou Zhangshou]
<Jay Kim, World Literature>
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Yrwin BatanMITHarvard B9610
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Summary

2024 Penn Bowl Harvard10/26/2024Y475%0%25%112.00
2024 Penn Bowl UK10/26/2024Y5100%60%20%83.60
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU11/02/2024Y450%25%0%81.00
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago11/02/2024Y7100%57%29%93.57
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite11/02/2024Y3100%33%0%107.00