This novel’s creator vehemently insisted that it was “just a story about rabbits” and not an anti-war allegory. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this novel, in which Hazel leads Fiver and Blackberry as they flee humans’ destruction of the Sandleford warren.
ANSWER: Watership Down (by Richard Adams)
[10e] The narrator meets the hyper-rational horses Houyhnhnms (“HWIN-ums”) and the savage Yahoos in this author’s novel Gulliver’s Travels.
ANSWER: Jonathan Swift
[10h] An author from this country, NoViolet Bulawayo, was inspired by Animal Farm to describe the ousting of the “Old Horse” in a 2022 novel. That book, Glory, allegorizes a 2017 coup in this home country of Tsitsi Dangarembga (“t’SIT-see dan-gar-EMB-gah”).
ANSWER: Republic of Zimbabwe
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