After hearing “The Foot of the Cross” at his local church, this character seeks out its composer to compliment the hymn, only to be told that the composer can’t support himself on music and plans to become a wine merchant. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this character who slips a letter for Mr. Philloston into a piano that his aunt had been storing for him after his departure. This character’s wife leaves him after an argument about how to slaughter a pig.
ANSWER: Jude Fawley [or Jude Fawley; accept Jude the Obscure]
[10e] This author’s character of Jude Fawley aspires towards a learned profession despite his trade as a stonemason, which he shares with the father of this author of Tess of the D’Urbervilles.
ANSWER: Thomas Hardy
[10m] The opening line of Jude the Obscure refers to Mr. Philloston by this job of his, which Jude’s cousin Sue later takes on under him. In another novel, a “born fascist” with this profession says “I am in my prime” and selects a namesake “set.”
ANSWER: teacher [accept schoolmaster; accept schoolteacher] (The novel is The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
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