David Ragin is told to “believe in independent men” like Huckleberry Finn after asking this object’s owner what he has against the “machine” this week. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this object that titles a 1964 play. This object, which bears the slogans, “Clean Up Community Politics” and “Wipe Out Bossism,” hangs outside a Greenwich Village apartment.
ANSWER: the sign in Sidney Brustein’s window [or the sign in Sidney Brustein’s window; prompt on sign]
[10e] The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window is by this author, whose husband Robert Nemiroff adapted her personal writings into the play To Be Young, Gifted and Black.
ANSWER: Lorraine Hansberry [or Lorraine Vivian Hansberry]
[10h] Sidney’s wife Iris has this maiden name, which her sister Mavis points out is associated with the ancient Greek chorus. This word referred to both a side entrance for the chorus and the chorus’s first ode.
ANSWER: parodus [or parodos]
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