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After an interruption, a character in this play resumes telling a story about eating crumb cake in a woman’s kitchen, but disappointingly reveals that the cake was store-bought. This play’s second act opens with a character remarking that people in school told him about “numbers of such magnitude that multiplying them by two made no difference.” To aid a colleague, a character in this play pretends to be trying to get to his wife’s birthday party in Kenilworth. (10[2])That (10[1])character in this (10[1])play is involved in (10[1])selling material (-5[1])to Jerry Graff. Some productions of this play remove (-5[1])dialogue in which characters suggest that anyone named (10[1])Patel (10[2])is a (10[1])cheapskate, (10[6])some of which (10[2])is spoken in a booth in a Chinese restaurant. (10[2])For 10 points, the unseen bosses Mitch and Murray set up a sales contest in what David Mamet play about real estate agents? ■END■ (10[2])

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