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After bicycling 15 miles to swim in a river, two characters in this novel have sex, as implied by the line “this is how it was.” In this novel, a doctor interrupts a Christmas party with a long speech on Karl Marx, whom the doctor named his son after. A boy in this novel becomes a quiet loner (-5[1])after accidentally shooting his neighbor in the face with a BB gun. After a failed prom party in this novel, a tomboy feels music “boil inside her” as she listens to Beethoven’s Third. In this novel, the sudden erratic behavior of a slovenly Greek man (10[1])results in his detention in a state asylum, where news of his death causes his deaf-mute best friend to shoot himself in the chest. For 10 points, (10[1])characters like Jake Blount and Mick Kelly confide in John Singer in what novel by Carson McCullers? (10[1])■END■ (0[2])

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