Jas’s (“yoss’s”) brother dies in an ice skating accident in a Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (“muh-REE-kuh loo-kuss RYNE-uh-felt”) novel titled for the “discomfort” of this time period. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this time period that titles a Gerard Reve (“KHAY-rart RAY-vuh”) novel subtitled “A Winter’s Tale.” The beekeeper Rudy Panko introduces a collection titled for these time periods that contains the story “Sorochintsi Fair.”
ANSWER: evenings [accept Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka or Village Evenings Near Dikanka or Vecherá na hútore bliz Dikán’ki; accept The Evenings, De avonden, The Evenings: A Winter’s Tale, or De avonden: Een winterverhaal; accept The Discomfort of Evening or De avond is ongemak]
[10e] Rijneveld and Reve both wrote in this language, which Anne Frank used to write her diary.
ANSWER: Dutch [or Nederlands]
[10h] In The Discomfort of Evening, Jas fears that her father will kill one of these animals that she keeps as a pet. Alberto illustrates the enormity of the universe with a metaphor about one of these animals in Jostein Gaarder’s (“YO-stain GORD-er’s”) novel Sophie’s World.
ANSWER: rabbits [or bunny rabbits or bunnies; accept lagomorphs or leporids; reject “hares”]
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