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In a book by this author, a researcher notes that a subject can read after he pronounces the word “delicatessen” backwards. In a novella by this author, a scientist discovers a frog’s belly enlarged by a red ray from a microscope. Humanity is attacked by aggressive (10[1])reptile-bird (10[1])hybrids created in the wake of a chicken extinction in (10[1])that book by this author, (10[1])The Fatal Eggs. (10[2]-5[1])The title character (10[1])of a novella by this author gets a job catching stray cats (-5[1])after an experiment (10[1]-5[1])in which Dr. (-5[1])Preobrazhensky (10[1])attaches a human pituitary gland and testicles (10[2])to the stray (10[1])mutt (10[1])Sharik. (10[1])In a novel by this author, (10[1])a writer destroys his book on Pontius (10[1])Pilate, (10[1]-5[1])prompting Professor (-5[1])Woland to tell him that “manuscripts (10[2])don’t burn.” (-5[1])For (-5[1])10 points, name this Soviet author (10[1])of Heart of a (10[1])Dog and The Master and Margarita. ■END■ (10[7]0[1])

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