Round 10: Tossup 7

According to Richard Francis Burton, an escape from one of these places by following an animal was inspired by Aristomenes’ tale of following a fox. A custom of leaving surviving spouses in one of these places with water and seven loaves of bread is forced upon a sailor on (-5[1])his fourth voyage. (-5[2])After getting trapped, Cassim gets quartered in one of these places that his brother found while cutting wood. To hide the secret of that one (10[1])of these places, forty thieves hide (10[1])in oil (10[1])jars (10[1])to kill Ali Baba. (10[1])A sorcerer tricks a boy into searching one of these places for a lamp in a story from Arabian Nights. For 10 points, Aladdin finds a genie while trapped in (10[1])what type of underground location? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: caves [or caverns; accept pits; prompt on dens; prompt on underground until read; prompt on tomb by asking “what kind of location was that tomb in?”]
<Editors, World Literature> | Packet L
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