Indian Camp – Quiz | shortsonline

Indian Camp – General Understanding Quiz

Back to our Information Page

See top menu for all 1,500+ stories

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

Other stories you may like:

The Empty House
Short Story by Algernon Blackwood. Two psychic sleuths decide to investigate a supposedly haunted house. Initially, the ghosts go about their nightly business seemingly indifferent to the visitors. There is no sign of a threat until one of the pair gives way to their fear and begins to flee.
Han’s Crime
Short Story by Shiga Naoya. A theatre performer kills his wife during a knife-throwing act. When asked if he is sorry about her death? He answers: Not at all! …I never could have imagined I would feel such happiness. Readers must decide if it was murder or a terrible accident.
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
Short Story by Gabriel Marquez. The body of a huge man washed in from the sea transforms a drab, sleepy fishing village. The people feel such pride in being associated with the unknown man that their celebrations of his life turn the village into a famous landmark.
The Dead Past
Novelette by Isaac Assimov. A young physicist builds a home “chronoscope” that can look back in time up to one hundred and fifty years. Too late, the government tries to censor his work, pointing out its potential to destroy an important aspect of life everyone takes for granted.
A Small, Good Thing
Novelette by Raymond Carver. Parents mount a vigil by their unconscious son’s hospital bed. Whenever one of them goes home to freshen up and feed the family dog, they receive prank phone calls mentioning the boy’s name. The boy dies after three days, but the calls continue.

Pret in the House / Ghost Trouble
Grade 3-4 Story by Ruskin Bond. A pret (ghost) moves into a family’s house. Fortunately, it is of the mischievous rather than dangerous or hungry variety. When its playful pranks become too annoying, the family decides to move away. However, this does not prove as easy as they had hoped.
The Stars
Short Story by S. Rajaratnam. An Indian farmer who is obsessed with the stars doubles as his village astrologer. To silence sceptics he charts his own destiny, determines the date and time of his death, and invites the whole village to witness and celebrate the event.
The Underground Gardens
Short Story by T. C. Boyle. An Italian immigrant is disheartened to find that land he bought by mail order is too dry and hard to farm. Spurred on by a love interest, he hand digs a subterranean mansion. When the woman rejects him, he keeps on digging.
Suzy and Leah
Grade 7-8 Story by Jane Yolen. A girl's insensitive attempts at kindness by passing gratuitous handouts through a camp fence cause friction between herself and an orphaned holocaust survivor she is assigned to help at school. Understanding comes when one is hospitalized and they read each other’s diaries.
The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses
Short Story by Bessie Head. A group of political prisoners trying to survive the harsh South African penal system must adapt as a new warder makes their life even more difficult. Fortunately, he weakest among them finds a way to manipulate the warder to improve things for all.