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The Pale Man – 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

In Another Country
Short Story by Ernest Hemingway. An American wounded in World War 1 visits a Milan hospital every day for exercises to rehabilitate a wounded knee. He shares his fears about returning to the front, and his relationship and experiences with five Italian soldiers undergoing treatment.
What You Pawn I Will Redeem
Short Story by Sherman Alexie. A homeless, alcoholic Native American sees his grandmother’s stolen ceremonial dance regalia hanging in a pawn shop window. With $25 in his pocket, he sets off on a 24-hour quest to come up with the $999 dollars needed to redeem it.
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”.
Young Goodman Brown
Short Story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. A young puritan with a bigoted belief in his moral superiority sets out to test his will against the devil. His transformation into a stern, sad, distrustful man whose dying hour was gloom suggests that the devil won the encounter.
The Moustache
Young Adult Story by Robert Cormier. Seventeen year-old Mike grew a moustache and likes the look. One day he visits his grandmother, who is losing her memory. She mistakes him for his late grandfather and tells him a secret that affects him so much he shaves off the moustache.

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.
Knock
Short Story by Fredric Brown. The last man on Earth sits alone in a room. There is a knock on the door. Aliens have collected 217 animal species for study and destroyed all other life on the planet. After they return home, he hears the second knock on the door.
Marjorie Daw
Short Story by Thomas Aldrich. A wealthy, self-absorbed young man is unhappy about being confined to a sofa with a broken leg. The man’s best friend is asked to write frequent letters to “distract and cheer him up”. These begin with an innocent white lie that grows into an obsession.
Big Brother / Bade Bhai Sahab
Short Story by Premchand. Two Indian brothers with opposite personalities attend boarding school. The older, more studios brother consistently fails; the younger, irresponsible brother excels. The story teaches the danger of arrogant pride, and that there is always something to learn from those with more life experience
Unto Dust
Short Story by Herman Bosman. A South African farmer and native warrior die next to each other in a war. When the farmer’s friends come to take his body home for burial, they find that wild animals have made it almost impossible to tell the two lots of bones apart.