Question

In a novel set in this state, Uncle Lucas falls ill after a saloon owner’s three daughters curse him. Ben narrates the third section of a four-part novel set in this state in which an officer beats the albino-murdering protagonist, whom (-5[1])Ben calls a “longhair.” The narrator compares his parents to the sea and the moon in a novel set in this state in which a healer dies after her owl is shot. In a novel set in this state, (15[1])a protagonist who receives the mules (*) Angelica and Contento is later saved from murder by Magdalena Scales. Abel sings of the title House Made of Dawn in a N. Scott Momaday (-5[1])novel set in this state. For 10 points, name this setting of Willa Cather’s Death Comes (-5[1])for the Archbishop, where Jean Latour meets many of this state’s Pueblo people. (10[3])■END■

ANSWER: New Mexico [or NM] (the unnamed novel in the first and third lines is Bless Me, Ultima)
<Kevin Wang, American Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Yrwin BatanMITBrandeis40-5
Jem BurchYale ATufts7915
Michael KearneyHarvard AYale B110-5
James McCurleyHarvard BBU126-5
Gangrade AdityaBUHarvard B14010
Jonathan SchnipperBrandeisMIT14010
Kevin ZhengYale BHarvard A14010

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2024 Penn Bowl Harvard10/26/2024Y4100%25%75%124.75