Queenie Cookson struggles with the morality of killing these animals in a 1984 novel set in the fictional town of Angelus. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these animals to whom the Maori girl Kahu is capable of speaking in a Witi Ihimaera (“wee-tee ee-hee-mah-EH-rah”) novel that retells the myth of Paikea.
ANSWER: whales [accept The Whale Rider; prompt on Cetacea or cetaceans]
[10h] This author wrote about the fictional whaling outpost of Angelus in the novel Shallows. A child named Fish miraculously survives drowning in this Western Australian author’s novel about the Pickles and Lamb families’ lives in the title house.
ANSWER: Tim Winton [or Timothy John Winton] (The novel is Cloudstreet.)
[10e] Fred Scully searches for his missing wife Jennifer in Winton’s novel titled for these kinds of people. Maurya’s male family members keep drowning in a J. M. Synge play titled for this kind of person.
ANSWER: riders [accept The Riders; accept Riders to the Sea]
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