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This body of water separates Ohio (a former free state) from Kentucky (a former slave state).
What is the Ohio River?
This chilly northern city was the capital of Imperial Russia.
What is St. Petersburg?
Throughout the film we see Samuel practicing tricks to be this kind of performer.
What is a magician?
Very much dead, Jacob Marley is compared to this object in the opening lines of the novella.
What is a doornail?
"Last night night I dreamt I went HERE again," a cryptic voiceover states in the film's opening lines.
Where is Manderley?
She was the formerly enslaved woman upon whose story Morrison based her novel.
Who was Margaret Garner?
A play on the Russian word for "shoe," this is Akaky Akakievich's last name.
What is Bashmachkin?
The titular monster is first introduced by the appearance of this child-friendly object.
What is a pop-up book?
The modest lady whom the beastly Scrooge was in love with as a young man.
Who is Belle?
This is the unnamed protagonist's job before she marries Maxim.
What is a lady's companion?
This law required all escaped slaves to be returned to their enslaver, and forced authorities within free states to comply.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act (of 1850)?
A rigid hierarchical structure introduced by Tsar Peter the Great, this system sorted the civil and military service in Imperial Russia.
What is the Table of Ranks?
Confined to the basement at the film's close, the Babadook is fed these by Amelia.
What are worms?
This man, Scrooge's old boss, used to throw a wild office Christmas party back in the day.
Who is Fezziwig?
This ne'er-do-well cousin of Rebecca attempts to blackmail Maxim by threatening to implicate Maxim in her death.
Who is Jack Favell?
This Ohio city, home to the fictional 124 Bluestone Road, served as a stopping point on the Underground Railroad under slavery, and then became a way station for northward migration after emancipation
What is Cincinnati?
A rather low-ranking position in the civil service, this is Akaky Akakievich's title.
What is a titular councillor?
He's no grouch, but this is the first name of Amelia's husband and Samuel's father.
What is Oskar?
In his past, Scrooge sees his "childhood friends" - Ali Baba from Arabian Nights and the parrot from this Daniel Defoe adventure novel.
What is Robinson Crusoe?
The more commonly used nickname of The Motion Picture Production Code, a censorship law whose strict guidelines demanded several major plot changes from du Maurier's original novel.
What is the Hays Code?
One of the main scholars of trauma theory whose work explores the "unspeakability" of atrocity.
Who is Cathy Caruth?
The name of the high-ranking bureaucrat who subjects Akaky Akakievich to a fatal scolding.
Trick question! The man remains unnamed, referred to only as the important person.
Along with Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman, Hachi fills out the main cast of the film, playing this ill-fated family pet.
Who is Bugsy?
Blighted by extreme poverty in the 1840s, this neighborhood was home to the Cratchits - and to a young Charles Dickens himself!
What is Camden Town?
Tricked by Mrs. Danvers, the Second Mrs. de Winter dresses as this ancestor of Maxim's for their costume ball.
Who is Caroline de Winter?