Question

In a play, a man of this profession remarks of a woman that, “the only emotion she has ever succeeded in arousing in me” is “an intense and passionate disgust” while confessing their affair to her husband. In a play’s closing lines, a dead man of this profession returns to say that “sometimes all you can do” is “pass the parcel.” A man of this profession breaks down in tears when he (10[1])reads the line “God from afar looks graciously upon a gentle master” inscribed in a gifted (*) translation of Aeschylus’s Agamemnon in Terence Rattigan’s play The Browning Version. In a 2004 play, an accident leaves a man of this profession named Irwin wheelchair-bound and kills his popular colleague Hector, who is fired for sexually assaulting kids while on a motorcycle. For 10 points, name this profession held by most adults in Alan Bennett’s play The History (10[1])Boys. ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

ANSWER: teacher [accept history teacher; accept instructor or schoolmaster or professor]
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