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2BR02B – 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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Paul’s Case
Novelette by Willa Cather. A misunderstood, alienated boy is experiencing problems in both his school and home lives. When forced to leave school and give up the only two things that mean anything to him, he decides on drastic action (or is it all a daydream?).
With All Flags Flying
Short Story by Anne Tyler. An eighty-two-year-old man insists on moving into an “old folks’ home”. Although has a loving family who would gladly house and care for him, he is ashamed of his growing weakness and steadfastly (and somewhat selfishly) refuses to be “loved at any cost”.
Yellow Moepels
Short Story by Herman Bosman. A young Boer soldier riding off to fight the British promises the girl he is engaged to that he will be home when the moepel fruit are ripe (yellow). A native witch-doctor tells her the same thing, but leaves out an important piece of information.
Crazy Sunday
Short Story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. An up-and-coming Hollywood screenwriter falls in love with the wife of a powerful, adulterous movie director. Thanks to Hollywood’s toxic, highly competitive culture, all three suffer major insecurity issues. The woman’s life lacks intimacy, but not the kind the screenwriter has in mind.
Escapes
Short Story by Joy Williams. A woman relates her experiences as a young girl living with her alcoholic mother. She recounts how her father left them due to her mother’s drinking, her mother’s frequent mention of the escape artist Houdini, and an embarrassing incident at a magic show.

The Erlking
Short Story by Angela Carter. A magical being living in harmony with nature seduces young women traveling through his forest domain. The women are powerless to resist. When he tires of one, he transforms her into a bird, cages her, and adds the cage to his collection of other "birds".
The Pearl of Love
Short Story by H. G. Wells. An Indian prince, devastated by the death of his young wife, builds a magnificent shrine to her named the “Pearl of Love”. Over the years he makes it and grander, until one day he disassembles it because it blocks his view of a mountain.
Broken Chain
Grade 7-8 Story by Gary Soto. An insecure seventh-grader is obsessed with his appearance (teeth, V-cut abs, hairstyle and clothes). His outlook changes when an act of kindness results in a bike-riding “date” with a girl. When his bicycle chain breaks, it looks like the date will be a disaster.
The Blue Bead
Grade 7-8 Story by Norah Burke. When a twelve-year-old Indian girl, whose “life from birth to death is marked for work”, saves a villager by fighting off a four-meter crocodile, she is more excited by a blue bead she later finds in the water than the danger she faced.
Civil Peace
Short Story by Chinua Achebe. A light-hearted take on the challenges faced by a family in the aftermath of the Nigerian Civil War. Despite the corruption, devastation and lawlessness around them, the family are thankful for what they have and, by working together, find opportunity in adversity.