A character in this play lifts her hands and claims to have eight fingers while speaking with a boy who delivers her groceries. Another character in this play forces a girl to take the “solemn oath of a knight” as part of blackmailing her for stealing a bracelet. To refute a character in this play, a woman repeatedly insists that there’s no keyhole on her door. In this play’s first scene, a girl with a lisp cuts her peer’s hair while another character rehearses lines from The (*) Merchant of Venice. After a girl in this play feigns a heart attack, a woman calls in her doctor fiancé Joe Cardin. After two women in this play lose a libel suit, Karen Wright hears Martha Dobie shoot herself. For 10 points, name this play in which the schoolgirl Mary Tilford accuses two of her teachers of having a lesbian affair, written by Lillian Hellman. ■END■
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<Darren Petrosino, American Literature>
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