Question

While telling the story of how she met her husband at a party when she was a girl, one character in this play says that she always drinks elderberry wine to cure hiccups. This play ends after the concerned question, “Are you afraid, Mama?” While searching through a bank, a character in this play discovers a baby shoe and a violin string. (15[1])The moral servants in this play’s prequel, (*) Another Part of the Forest, is reflected in this play by a servant’s (10[1])warning about “people who eat the earth.” In this play, Leo steals Union Pacific bonds worth $80,000. At the climax (10[1])of this play, the protagonist withholds (10[1])medicine from her wheelchair-bound husband Horace, allowing him to die of a heart attack. For 10 points, name this play about the scheming Regina Giddens by Lillian Hellman. ■END■ (10[3]0[2])

ANSWER: The Little Foxes
<JP, American Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Eylon CaplanPurdue AWUSTL6115
Shourjo GanguliOhio State AMichigan B8110
Biyang ZhangMichigan ASIUE B10110
Braden BoothMissouriOhio State B10710
Robert CondronChicago AOhio State C13610
Ben TytellChicago DPurdue B1360
Nermeen RahmanChicago CChicago B13610
Giifti BentiSIUE APurdue C13610
Ben DahlPurdue BChicago D1360

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2023 ILLIAC (Cornell)2023-10-21Y450%0%25%105.50
2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite)2023-10-21Y888%13%0%108.29