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This set is often mistaken for a real building that now serves as a combination museum and theater and that Henry Bumstead exactly recreated on a Universal backlot. In this place, a character sarcastically references a man’s “unmitigated temerity” in a speech that ends “in the name of God, do your duty.” In this place, a man is asked to prove that he’s literate by writing his name, tricking him into showing that he’s left-handed. Murmurs break out in this place when a man claims that he chopped a woman’s (*) chiffarobe for free because he felt sorry for her. In this place’s segregated upper gallery, a protagonist’s children watch a character played by Brock Peters along with the Black residents of Maycomb. For 10 points, identify this place where Gregory Peck questions witnesses as Atticus Finch. ■END■
ANSWER: the courtroom from To Kill a Mockingbird [accept synonyms such as courthouse; prompt on answers that do not mention To Kill a Mockingbird by asking “in what film?”]
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