A woman in this novel recounts a childhood memory of buying apricots with her friend when they could not afford entry to a visiting circus. At the start of this novel, a boy ignores instructions to wait in a store when his cat gets stuck up a telegraph pole. After his friend Amédée (10[1])dies of appendicitis, a would-be law student in this novel has an affair with a married woman, whose husband kills them under a white mulberry tree. (10[1])This novel’s protagonist is kind to the elderly, mystical animal lover Crazy Ivar. This novel’s (-5[1])two main siblings, who respectively fall in love with Marie Shabata and Carl Linstrum, are named Emil and Alexandra. For 10 points, a Nebraska farm is the setting (-5[1])of what novel about the Swedish-American Bergson family (10[2])by Willa Cather? ■END■ (10[3]0[3])