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Toy Shop – 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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Cicada
Short Story by Camille Acker. A young African-American girl from a working-class family wins a piano competition against privileged white kids from a wealthy neighborhood. Provoked by the rude, condescending attitude of another competitor, she attacks the other girl’s chauffeur-driven car with an unlikely weapon.
The Looking-Glass
Short Story by Anton Chekhov. A young woman dreams about getting married and settling down happily with the perfect man. One night, she has a vision of the reality of living and raising a family in rural Russia and asks herself: “Why is it, what is it for?”
The Judgment (The Verdict)
Short Story by Franz Kafka. A frail but dominating father thinks his son is trying to ease him out of their family business. After an argument over the son’s marriage plans and a mysterious friend he communicates with in Russia, the father sentences him to death for selfishness and betrayal.
The Willows
Novella by Algernon Blackwood. Two canoeists traveling through the swollen Danube delta camp on a small island that sits on the boundary between the known world and another. A malevolent presence has become aware of their existence, and stalks the creeping willows looking for a human sacrifice.
Mitya’s Love
Novella by Ivan Bunin. A young Russian is so hopelessly in love with a woman that his jealousy stifles their relationship. They decide to separate for a short period to test their feelings. When she fails to respond to his increasingly desperate letters, things don’t end well.

Dusky Ruth
Short Story by A. E. Coppard. A hiker stops for the night at a village inn. That evening, a dusky serving girl he had shared passionate embraces with invites him to her bedroom where, as she lays naked and crying beside him, he proves to be a perfect English gentleman.
Christmas Not Just Once a Year
Novelette by Heinrich Böll. After years of austerity during World War II, a German businessman’s wife becomes hysterical when the tree for the traditional lavish family Christmas of 1946 is taken down. To prevent her being institutionalized, her family agree to re-celebrate Christmas Eve every day of the year.
The Green Door
Short Story by O. Henry. By day, Rudolf Steiner lives a normal life working in a piano store. By night, he walks the streets looking for adventure. One night, adventure calls upon him to open a green door. What he finds on the other side could change his life forever.
The Toxic Donut
Quick Read by Terry Bisson. Set in the future, technology exists that can concentrate a whole year’s toxic wastes and pollutants into a single donut. In an annual TV extravaganza that rates higher than the academy awards, a hapless person is chosen who must eat it.
A Jury of Her Peers
Novelette by Susan Glaspell. Men investigating a farmer’s murder bring their wives to his farmhouse to collect clothing for the suspect (the farmer’s wife) while in jail. The women face a moral dilemma. They find evidence that would convict the wife, but also proof of the farmer’s cruelty towards her.