Question
The speaker wonders, “Didn’t we all have dream houses?” before fixating on a tree in a churchyard in Michelle Cliff’s poem about this person. For 10 points each:
[10h] Identify this person who names a game from a short story in which Shoshana, Yerucham, Debbie, and the narrator speculate about their neighbors while drunk and high together in a pantry.
ANSWER: Anne Frank [or Annelies Marie Frank; accept What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank] (The Cliff poem is “A Visit to the Secret Annex.”)
[10e] While grieving her mom’s death, Nikki recalls reading Anne Frank’s diary in this author’s novel Mother, Missing. This American author also wrote “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
ANSWER: Joyce Carol Oates
[10m] This author critiqued the appropriation of Anne Frank’s legacy in the essay “Who Owns Anne Frank?” A Nazi guard throws the baby Magda against an electric fence in this Jewish-American writer’s story “The Shawl.”
ANSWER: Cynthia Ozick
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