Packet 8: Tossup 19

A woman in this play cries after not being allowed to take a carriage to town since her husband is using the horses to farm. (-5[2])One character in this play (15[1])calls her son a Symbolist while changing his bandages, and that son rejects the love (15[1])of a woman who claims to wear black in “mourning for life.” (15[3]-5[1])Red lights (15[1])and sulfur (15[2]-5[1])represent Satan (15[3]-5[1])in a (15[1])(*) play within this play, which Irina (10[1])Arkadina (10[3])criticizes. (10[1]-5[2])Dr. Dorn claims (10[1])a gunshot (10[1])was (10[1])instead (-5[1])the sound of a medicine (10[1])bottle breaking in this play. In this play, Nina falls in love with (-5[1])Trigorin (10[2])before being abandoned. (-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this Anton Chekhov (10[1])play (10[1])in which Treplev (-5[1])shoots the title (10[1]-5[1])bird. (10[1])■END■ (10[10]0[8])

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