In Heinrich Heine’s (“HIGH-nuh’s”) mock-epic poem Atta Troll, a dancing animal of this type is hunted by witches. For 10 points each:
[10e] In a fairy tale, Goldilocks breaks into a house owned by a family of three of what animals?
ANSWER: bears [or Bären]
[10h] The title character is nearly killed during a bear hunt in this poem by Adam Mickiewicz (“meets-KYAY-veech”). This national epic of Poland follows a feud between the Soplicas (“soh-PLEET-sahs”) and Horeszkos (“hoh-RESH-kohs”).
ANSWER: Pan Tadeusz (“pahn tah-DAY-oosh”) [or Pan Tadeusz, czyli ostatni zajazd na Litwie; or Sir Thaddeus, or the Last Foray in Lithuania]
[10m] In this work, Taytana has a dream about being chased by a talking bear. This novel in verse, which originated the superfluous man archetype, consists of stanzas of alternating masculine and feminine rhymes.
ANSWER: Eugene Onegin [or Yevgeniy Onegin] (by Alexander Pushkin)
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