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Indian Camp – General Understanding Quiz

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Approximate Reading Times

Quick Read: under 5 minutes
Short Story: 5 to 30 minutes
Novelette: 30 to 90 minutes
Novella: 1.5 to 2.5 hours

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Novella by Henry James. The behaviour of a young, free-spirited American socialite traveling through Southern Europe is scandalous by the standards of the American expat community. A question in the mind of a man smitten by her is whether the enigmatic woman could possibly be as innocent as she appears.
Death by Scrabble
Quick Read by Charlie Fish. A couple who hate each other play a game of scrabble. The man notices that the words on the board seem to come true in the room around them. As he tests the theory, he realizes too late that his wife has made the same discovery.
Menagerie, a Child’s Fable
Short Story by Charles Johnson. A confronting allegorical fable about animals left to fend for themselves in a locked pet shop. Chaos and a gruesome power struggle ensue when their protector, a loveable watchdog, opens the cages so the hungry animals can forage for food in the storeroom.
Wasps’ Nest
Short Story by Agatha Christie. Hercule Poirot makes a surprise visit to an old friend and asks him to help prevent a murder involving a mutual acquaintance. Thanks to some very unlikely coincidences and skills learned from a grateful pickpocket, Poirot prevents both the murder and a suicide.
The Hell Screen
Novelette by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. A cold-hearted, conceited artist considered to be the greatest in Japan insists upon personally experiencing the scenes he creates. When commissioned to paint a folding screen with a scene from Hell, his Feudal Lord agrees to stage the event for him.

The Man from Mars
Novelette by Margaret Atwood. A "big-boned", athletic Canadian university student becomes anxious but gains self-esteem when a creepy-looking “Oriental” student begins to stalk her. Other men who have previously shown little interest in her take notice. Wondering what he sees in her, they begin to ask her out.
The Money-Box
Short Story by W. W. Jacobs. Two sailors used to squandering their wages in the first few days ashore trust their money to a “very steady old teetotaler” who agrees to give them “a moderate amount each day” Needless to say, they soon regret the decision.
The Model Millionaire
Short Story by Oscar Wilde. To marry the woman he loves, a man needs to show her father that he has £10,000 to his name. A chance visit to an artist friend and the generous gift of his last sovereign to a beggar he was painting solves his problem.
The Distance of the Moon
Short Story by Italo Calvino. The moon once came close enough to earth each month for people to climb onto it at sea. When a woman from a boat that sailed out to collect ‘moon-milk’ became stranded as it moved away, her husband seemed pleased to be rid of her.
Master Jacob
Grade 5-6 Story by Howard Pyle. Three greedy community leaders (a priest, a provost, and the town mayor) decide to trick an unsuspecting farmer out of a fat pig he is taking to market. Later, the sly farmer turns the tables with three tricks of his own.