This character comforts a sick woman by telling her that when she dies, the “Lord will look at [her] gently and tenderly” and say “‘Take Anna into Paradise.’” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this “old man” who encourages a thief to go to Siberia, a “land of gold” where one can live “like a cucumber in a hot-house.” He tells an anecdote about a man who fails to find the “land of righteousness.”
ANSWER: Luka
[10m] In this play, Satine (“sah-TEEN”) tells the Baron that Luka “lied out of sheer pity for you... He understood man—you don’t!” The thief Vaska kills his landlord Kostilyoff in this play.
ANSWER: The Lower Depths [or Na Dne]
[10e] This Russian author and claimed “founder of socialist realism” was inspired to write The Lower Depths by residents of the Bugrov Homeless Shelter.
ANSWER: Maxim Gorky [or Alexei Maximovich Peshkov]
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