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Misery – 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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Snow, Glass, Apples
Short Story by Neil Gaiman. Yet another re-invention of the Snow White tale, told from the perspective of the much-maligned Queen. She knows a little magic (enough to glimpse the future and enchant the King), but not enough to match her evil, vampiric, sexually depraved stepdaughter.
The Bloody Chamber
Novelette by Angela Carter. A very rich, three-times widowed French nobleman marries a seventeen-year-old virtuoso pianist and rushes her away to his secluded castle for a “honeymoon”. After a passionless consummation that satisfies his desire to have married a virgin, he lays a deadly trap designed to end the marriage.
A Ride Out of Phrao
Novelette by Dina Nayeri. A woman working for the United Stated Peace Corps in Northern Thailand is excited about a visit by her estranged daughter. The mother is a shameless liar and had lied about the accommodation they would be sharing… a steamy hut with a squat toilet!
Exchange Value
Short story by Charles Johnson. Two brothers break into the apartment of a deceased elderly neighbor. In her living room, they find cash and valuables worth over a million dollars. After moving the treasure to their own apartment, they experience a strange reluctance to spend any of it.
Souvenir
Short Story by Jayne Anne Phillips. A woman’s anguish over her mother’s brain tumor diagnosis is compounded by moral concern over her brother’s decision not to disclose the prognosis of scheduled brain surgery. Her mother eases her pain by reminiscing about their good times together before making a comforting admission.

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.
A Respectable Woman
Quick Read by Kate Chopin. A woman looking forward to spending time with her husband is disappointed when he invites an old school friend to visit. At first, she is polite but not friendly towards him and the two barely communicate. As time goes by, things change.
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
Short Story by Leo Tolstoy. A Russian peasant thinks to himself: “Our only trouble is that we haven’t enough land. If I had a lot of land, I shouldn’t fear the Devil himself!” The Devil ‘overhears’ this and puts him to the test. It doesn’t end well for the peasant.
The Man with the Rose
Short Story by Manuel Rojas. A priest is predictably dismissive when a man says he has “black magical” powers. The man begs to be put to the test, claiming that, if locked in a room for an hour, he can retrieve any distant object the priest nominates.
Sredni Vashtar
Short Story by Saki. A sickly ten-year-old boy masks his hatred for the “Woman”, a controlling guardian who thwarts his every pleasure in his life. To cope, he acts out fantasies in a disused tool-shed. When she tries to clear it out, a caged polecat-ferret named Sredni Vashtar takes revenge.