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Question

This novel’s author was inspired to write “my Aunt’s story” after hearing her recount a story of a woman who confessed to murdering her child. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this novel in which the Methodist preacher Dinah Morris was inspired by its author’s aunt. In this novel, Dinah’s cousin Hetty Sorrel mothers a child with Arthur Donnithorne.

ANSWER: Adam Bede

[10e] Adam Bede is by this author who wrote about Edward Casaubon forbidding Dorothea Brooke from remarrying after his death in Middlemarch.

ANSWER: George Eliot [or Mary Ann Evans]

[10h] Eliot defended this French author of A Winter in Majorca in a letter, writing that although “I should never dream of going to her [this author’s] writings as a moral code… it is given to her to delineate human passion and its results.”

ANSWER: George Sand [or Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin]

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Northern California	Main	Y	5	22.00	100%	40%	80%
Southern California	Main	Y	6	21.67	100%	17%	100%
Eastern Canada	Main	Y	7	17.14	86%	29%	57%
Florida	Main	Y	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	13.33	100%	0%	33%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	10.00	63%	13%	25%
Upper Mid-Atlantic (1)	Main	Y	8	16.25	100%	13%	50%
Upper Mid-Atlantic (2)	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	0%	25%
Lower Midwest	Main	Y	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%
Upper Midwest	Main	Y	10	15.00	90%	10%	50%
North	Main	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	9	16.67	100%	11%	56%
South Central	Main	Y	6	20.00	100%	33%	67%
UK	Main	Y	14	13.57	86%	0%	50%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%

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OSU C	CWRU A	10	10	20
CWRU B	Pitt A	10	0	10
MSU B	CWRU D	10	0	10
CWRU C	MSU A	10	0	10
Kenyon B	OSU D	10	0	10
OSU A	Pitt B	10	10	20