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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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Blood-Burning Moon
Short Story by Jean Toomer. Two men fight over a young, attractive African-American woman. One (the entitled son a white planter) pulls a knife on his adversary (a quick-tempered black labourer). When the planter’s son is killed, the black man is gruesomely executed by a white vigilante mob.
The Magic Shop
Short Story by H. G. Wells. A father and son enter a strange Magic Shop. The shopkeeper appears and entertains them with some ‘magic’. As the pair moves further into the store, they witness additional, seemingly impossible wonders. The father becomes increasingly uncomfortable, suspecting the presence of unnatural forces.
A Horse in the Moon
Short Story by Luigi Pirandello. A newly married couple come across a dying horse. On seeing her husband’s reaction, the woman realizes the marriage was a mistake. A medical episode and vision the man has as the moon rises behind the horse solves the problem for her.
The Minority Report
Novelette by Philip Dick. In a future dystopian society, authorities can identify a crime and imprison the would-be perpetrator before they even think of committing it. A Police Chief suspects that he is being "set-up" when he finds his name is on a list of people about to commit murder.
The Fiddler
Short Story by Herman Melville. A struggling writer is in a desperate mood after negative reviews of his latest work. His life changes when he learns the secret of a “commonplace” man who appears to have no special talents but is able to live life to the fullest.

The Lottery
Short Story by Marjorie Barnard. Friends draw a man’s attention to a newspaper report that his wife has just won first prize in a lottery. He wonders “Why didn’t she let him know”, and “Where did she get the money?” The answers aren’t what he had expected.
Five-Twenty
Novelette by Patrick White. A woman with very low self-esteem spends her life at the beck and call of a rancorous, dominating husband. As they age and he gradually wastes away, she becomes obsessed with a strange-looking man who drives by their house at five-twenty every day.
The Love Potion
Short Story by Herman Bosman. A Boer farmer relates a tongue-in-cheek tale about how he once helped a shy policeman use a mythical love potion to make a woman fall in love with him. The ambiguous ending leaves it open as to whether the potion really worked.
Town and Country Lovers
Novelette by Nadine Gordimer. Set at a time when sexual intercourse between “whites” and “non-whites” was illegal in South Africa, the story explores the extent to which two women felt pressured into “illegal” relationships, and the unequal consequences suffered by the male and female participants.
He
Short Story by Katherine Porter. A poor farm family are forced to institutionalize their ailing special needs son. The story questions whether his mother’s tears are the result of losing him, a sense of failure/shame as a mother, and/or (as the narrator cruelly suggests) wishing he had never been born.