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Can-Can – 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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Christmas Every Day
Grade 5-6 Story by W. D. Howells. A demanding daughter insists that her busy father tell her a Christmas story. Perhaps with his daughter in mind, he makes up a tale about a little girl who makes a selfish Christmas wish that causes problems for almost everyone in the world.
There Will Come Soft Rains
Short Story by Ray Bradbury. A chronicle of the last day in the ‘life’ of an automated house that has survived a nuclear war. Although the family that inhabited it are dead, represented by shadows on the outside walls, the house has continued its daily cycle of programmed activity.
Quiet Town
Short Story by Jason Gurley. A single mother, her and son and an annoying neighbor are among the few remaining residents of a small town in which the rising ocean has just breached the sea wall. Experts had predicted this would not happen for fifty years: it had taken five!
Father Against Mother
Short Story by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. A destitute Brazilian slave catcher faces a dilemma. His wife has just had a baby, which they may have to place in an orphanage. He captures a heavily pregnant runaway, who will be cruelly punished and perhaps miscarry if returned.
A Retrieved Reformation
Short Story by O. Henry. Safe-cracker Jimmy Valentine gives up his life of crime for love. He changes his identity, builds a successful business, and becomes a model citizen. Unfortunately, police detective Ben Price is hot on Jimmy’s trail. Luckily for Jimmy, he still has his safe-cracking tools!

A Mystery of Heroism
Short Story by Stephen Crane. To an injured officer, the protagonist is a hero; to his fellow soldiers, he is a fool. The irony of a dropped bucket at the end of the story suggests that many acts of heroism in wartime are wasted, having no impact on the outcome.
Stories of the Bad & Good Little Boys
Short Stories by Mark Twain. Although the characters in these two stories appear to be opposites, they actually support the same themes: 1) all people have a bad and/or selfish side; and 2) whether good or bad, people don’t always get the reward/punishment they deserve.
Immortality
Novelette by Yiyun Li. A perspective on the Chinese Communist Party's use of indoctrination in its rise to power. Born in a village famous for supplying eunuchs to the imperial court, a Mao Zedong look-alike goes to Beijing where he enjoys fame as an official Mao impersonator.
In the Middle of the Fields
Short Story by Mary Lavin. A widow living with three young children on an isolated farm is visited one night by a neighbor seeking to defer promised tractor work. He reluctantly agrees to meet the original schedule after she asserts herself, but then makes an inappropriate advance.
Swaddling Clothes
Short Story by Yukio Mishima. The callous swaddling of an illegitimate baby in newspaper and protagonist Toshiko’s conviction that it is destined to grow up a poverty-stricken criminal underlines Japan’s rigid class structure. Shortly afterwards, while taking a walk alone one night, she comes face to face with her prophesy.