Question

Answer the following about dramatic portrayals of deaf characters, for 10 points each.
[10h] This play by Mark Medoff focuses on James Leeds, a teacher at a school for the deaf who attempts to learn to communicate with his former student Sarah Norman. Its title comes from Tennyson’s Idylls of the King.
ANSWER: Children of a Lesser God
[10e] Children of a Lesser God was inspired by William Gibson’s 1957 play The Miracle Worker, which chronicles Annie Sullivan’s struggle to teach this person. This disability activist wrote the autobiography The Story of My Life.
ANSWER: Helen Keller [or Helen Adams Keller]
[10m] Craig Lucas insisted on ASL interpreters for his play I Was Most Alive with You, which rewrites this character to have a deaf gay son. This character is reimagined as a New York banker in a play that features the vendors Nickles and Mr. Zuss.
ANSWER: Job [prompt on J.B.] (Archibald MacLeish wrote the unnamed play, J.B.)

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Chicago BOhio State A0101020
Columbia BMichigan A1010020
Cornell ADuke A0101020
Florida AGeorgia Tech A0101020
Florida BImperial A010010
Georgia Tech BPenn A010010
Harvard AToronto A0101020
Illinois ASouth Carolina A0101020
Johns Hopkins AUC Berkeley B010010
MIT AIndiana A010010
Maryland ABrown A0101020
McGill AClaremont A1010020
Minnesota ACornell B0101020
Minnesota BHouston A010010
North Carolina AColumbia A0101020
Northwestern ATexas A010010
Penn State AIowa State A1010020
Rutgers BNYU A010010
Stanford AYale A0101020
UC Berkeley AChicago C0101020
Vanderbilt APurdue A010010
Virginia AWUSTL B010010
WUSTL AChicago A0101020
Yale BRutgers A010010