Packet 11: Tossup 3

During this conflict, a blind accordionist mourns Lionheart’s death in the novel (-5[1])Mazurka for Two Dead Men. The narrator (15[1])of a memoir set during this conflict (15[1])survives a sniper shot to the neck (15[1])and laments (-5[1])his inability (15[1])to save Georges (-5[1])Kopp. A fictional (15[2])guerilla group led by the palm-reader Pilar fights in this conflict, (15[1])the subject (15[1])of many novels (15[1])by Jose (15[1])(*) Camillo Cela. (10[3])In a novel set (10[1])during this conflict, Robert is separated (10[1])from his lover Maria (10[2])after using (-5[1])grenades to blow up a bridge. (10[6])Ernest Hemingway’s (10[3])For Whom the Bell (10[1])Tolls (10[1])is set (10[1])during, for 10 points, (10[1])what conflict, the subject of Orwell’s memoir (10[2])Homage (10[1])to Catalonia? ■END■ (10[5]0[1])

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