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The Necklace – 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

Shopping
Short Story by Joyce Carol Oates. A lonely, divorced mother hopes that a trip to the mall with her 17-year-old daughter will help resolve problems between them. The girl is blossoming into womanhood. She has been the focus of her mother’s life, and the mother is having trouble "letting go".
Magnificence
Short Story by Estrella Alfon. In one of a parent’s worst nightmares an after-school tutor, loved and trusted by his two students, “loses control” and soils the dress of a seven-year-old girl he had placed on his knee. Her mother is magnificent in confronting and humiliating the man.
The Slump
Quick Read by John Updike. A professional baseball player tries to analyze why he is no longer hitting the ball as well as he used to. He identifies that the problem is psychological, and concludes that it is because he has lost his passion for the game
The Birthmark
Short Story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. A brilliant scientist marries a woman of “nearly perfect” beauty. Her one ‘blemish’ is a small hand-shaped birthmark on one cheek. As he begins to obsess over the “frightful” birthmark, his wife agrees to allow him to remove it… even if it costs her life!
Sweet Porridge
German Folktale. A kind old woman gives a magic pot to a poor girl looking for something to eat. When someone says special words, the pot cooks sweet porridge. Her mother and their village’s only problem is that you need to remember the special words that make it stop cooking.

The Adventure of the Dancing Men
Novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle. An English squire’s secretive new bride has been receiving messages written in a strange code that appear to terrify her. Sherlock Holmes takes on the case and easily cracks the code, but doesn’t move quickly enough to prevent a murder.
A Home near the Sea
Short Story by Kamala Das. An Indian woman tells a fellow beggar how her husband, a lazy drunkard, lost a secure job and caused them to be evicted from their hut. The listener brings her to tears by poetically providing encouragement and comparing her to the goddess Lakshmi.
Little Claus and Great Claus
Grade 5-6 Story by H. C. Andersen. A poor farmer who develops a talent for swindling people invents stories to explain the source of his newfound wealth to an envious neighbor. When the greedy neighbor tries to make money the same way, he suffers greatly.
A Conversation from the Third Floor
Short Story by Mohamed El-Bisatie. A woman tries to visit her husband in an Egyptian prison. She is allowed to leave a package but not to see him. As she stands on the street below, he has a brief but superficial conversation with her from his third floor cell window.
A Handful of Dates
Short Story by Tayeb Salih. A young boy and his grandfather were once very close. In a “coming of age” event, the boy realizes that his grandfather has become rich and powerful by taking advantage of the misfortune of others, especially a neighbor whose land he is determined to own.