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Mr Know-All – 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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The Three Sillies
English Folktale. A rich young man finds that the woman he loves and her family are not very clever. He decides that he will only marry the girl if he can find three people sillier than they are. Needless to say, it doesn’t take him long to find them.
Customs
Young Adult Story by Julia Alvarez. A Dominican American college student makes her annual trip home. Although most Dominican youth cling to the old ways, she finds a kindred anti-establishment spirit in her father’s young chauffeur. A disastrous camping trip proves that she still has some outdated ways of thinking.
Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter
Novelette by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. After failing ill in India, widowed Mrs Dutti’s moves to America to live with her son. When her attempts to integrate with his family cause problems on both sides, she finds the courage to admit she will be happier back home.
The Hack Driver
Short Story by Sinclair Lewis. A young lawyer is sent to a small town to serve a summons on a man needed for an important case. Although unsuccessful, he thoroughly enjoys his time with a helpful hack driver who drives him around all day, always one step behind his quarry.
Quiet Town
Short Story by Jason Gurley. A single mother, her and son and an annoying neighbor are among the few remaining residents of a small town in which the rising ocean has just breached the sea wall. Experts had predicted this would not happen for fifty years: it had taken five!

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 Skater
Short Story by Joy Williams. A Californian couple takes their teenage daughter on a tour of New England boarding schools, ostensibly so that the distance will help her deal with the recent death of her older sister. The girl thinks her parents have an ulterior motive.
A Country Doctor
Short Story by Franz Kafka. A country doctor experiences an existential crisis when his response to a call for help sets off a surreal chain of events. These include unearthly horses, the rape of his housemaid, and being stripped naked in a pagan ritual and laid beside his dying patient.
Stones in My Passway, Hellhound on My Trail
Short Story by T. C. Boyle. A fictionalized account of the mysterious death of American blues musician Robert Johnson, who was rumoured to have sold his soul to the devil in exchange for musical prowess. The story suggests that rather than the devil, a jilted woman brought about his demise.
A Girl Like Phyl
Novelette by Patricia Highsmith. A chance meeting with an eighteen-year-old girl at an airport revives bittersweet memories for a successful, seemingly happily married businessman. The girl, who bears a striking resemblance to his long obsessed over ex-girlfriend Phyl, later ends up in his hotel room and tries to seduce him.