Question
In a 2023 novel by Smriti Ravindra, Meena is accused of being a witch by the residents of a Nepalese village after performing this title action in the dead of night. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this action. After being fired from his job for stripping naked and dancing in a fountain at a wedding, the protagonist of another novel befriends a gang of monkeys and becomes a holy man after performing this action.
ANSWER: climbing a tree [accept descriptions like living or staying in a guava tree; accept The Woman Who Climbed Trees]
[10m] Apart from Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, this other Kiran Desai novel contains a scene in which the orphaned Sai climbs a tree to see her math tutor Gyan approaching, foreshadowing their relationship.
ANSWER: The Inheritance of Loss
[10e] An author with this surname discussed Tagore’s habit of naming the plants in his garden in a book titled How I Became a Tree. An author with this surname wrote about the twins Estha and Rahel in The God of Small Things.
ANSWER: Roy [accept Arundhati Roy; accept Sumana Roy]
<Literature - World Literature - Long Fiction>
Summary
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