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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 tea shop owner in a story by this author uses profits to buy a folk cure to unsuccessfully save their son from tuberculosis, (15[1])the (15[1])title “Medicine.” (15[1])A man who hasn't seen the moon in 30 years thinks his brother (*) killed his sister (10[1])in a story by this author (-5[1])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 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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Max Fitz-JamesFour Times I Have Despised My SoulGressenheller A88-5
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