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The main character of this play repeatedly claims to not be in the “same tribe” as a woman who calls him “salvageable.” In this play, 12 photos of the protagonist as a “well-dressed little man” are found in a suitcase (10[1])when George and Slick search his home for a revolver. Malcolm X may have taken the slogan “by any means necessary” from a character in this play who decries purity as “an idea for a yogi or a monk” and asks “do you suppose that it is possible to govern innocently?” In this play, a politician who bargains with the Regent’s son and the Pentagon party is shot by his secretary after being caught kissing the secretary’s wife, (10[1])Jessica. (10[1])In this play, the (-5[1])Illyrian communist “Raskolnikov” (10[1])is (10[1])tasked with killing (10[1])Hoederer. (10[3])For 10 points, what play about Hugo Barine by Jean-Paul Sartre names a “problem” (10[1])of immoral political (10[1])acts? (10[1]) (10[5]0[7])■END■

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