After spending all night reading a history book, the narrator of a story begins to see a phrase encouraging this action repeated between the lines. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name or describe this action that an old couple have their dying child do in the story “Medicine.” The narrator pleads to “save the children” at the end of another story in which he believes his elder brother plans to do this action.
ANSWER: cannibalism [accept eating people or equivalents; accept eating blood-soaked food; prompt on eating with “eating what?”; prompt on eating food or equivalents; prompt on eating medicine with “what is the medicine?”]
[10m] The narrator of this Lu Xun story sees the words “eat people” in a textbook and becomes convinced that his elder brother ate his younger sister and plans to eat him too after being imprisoned.
ANSWER: “Diary of a Madman” [or “Madman’s Diary” or “Kuángrén Rìjì”]
[10e] “Medicine” and “Diary of a Madman” critique the practice of eating human flesh in the traditional medicine of this home country of Lu Xun.
ANSWER: China [or the People’s Republic of China or PRC or Zhongguo or Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo; reject “Republic of China”]
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