A water pump in this town narrates a short, comedic story in which it describes the “manifold duties” it fulfills and urges everyone to stay hydrated. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this town where a man has “no hopeful verse” cast on his tombstone. In that story, a man from this town sees his wife’s pink ribbon in a tree before a dream-like ritual at which he tells her to “resist the Wicked One!”
ANSWER: Salem, Massachusetts [accept Salem Town or Salem Village] (The first story is “A Rill from the Town Pump.”)
[10e] This author, who added a “W” to his surname to distance himself from his Salem ancestry, published his story “Young Goodman Brown” in the collection Mosses from an Old Manse.
ANSWER: Nathaniel Hawthorne
[10h] John Endicott, who is depicted as the leader of Salem in Hawthorne’s story “Endicott and the Red Cross,” also appears in this Hawthorne story in which he orders the title object to be taken down at Edgar and Edith’s wedding.
ANSWER: “The May-Pole of Merry Mount”
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