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In this novella, a woman conducts an affair in silence “broken only by the measured ticking of her husband’s pocket watch,” which “didn’t interfere with anything.” In this novella, a young boy with a “squirrel-skin coat” reads the lives of the saints while down with chicken pox. (-5[1])A character in this novella dreams of a crescent moon and a fluffy gray tomcat, the latter of which is the spirit of her (-5[1])father-in-law. In this novella, a woman gives her lover blue (*) stockings with clocks on them, which she later sees on another woman’s legs. The last chapters of this novella center on a group of convicts, including Fiona and (10[1])Sonetka, the latter of whom is thrown off a barge into the Volga. (10[1])This novella’s title character (10[1])murders her father-in-law Boris, her husband Zinovy, (10[1])and the sick child Fyodor Lyamin so she can be with Sergei. For 10 points, Katerina Lvovna is compared to a Shakespeare (10[1])villainess in what novella (10[1])by Nikolai Leskov? ■END■ (10[3])

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