Question

In a play, a character with this job leads Ivy, Mr. Tremayne, Hester, and Fred Bailey in a scene that personifies the hours of the day as philosophers like Spinoza and Plato. For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this job held by Mr. Fitzpatrick in a play about the Antrobus family. In another play, a character with this job replies, “the saints and the poets, maybe,” to a dead woman’s question.
ANSWER: Stage Manager [prompt on narrators]
[10e] This author included fourth wall-breaking stage managers in his plays The Skin of Our Teeth and Our Town.
ANSWER: Thornton Wilder [or Thornton Niven Wilder]
[10h] The hours are also equated to philosophers in a Wilder play titled [this sort of place] Hiawatha. In another play set in this sort of place, a Black man claims that killing white people “would make us all sane” to a woman who stabs him.
ANSWER: train cars [or subway cars; accept New York City subways; accept metro cars; accept Pullman Car Hiawatha; prompt on cars] (The other play is Dutchman by Amiri Baraka.)
<UW A, American Literature>

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