There is a Reaper

There is a Reaper – 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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Han’s Crime
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The Luck of Roaring Camp
Short Story by Bret Harte. Strange things happen when a Californian gold prospecting camp “adopts” an orphaned baby born to its only woman resident, the camp prostitute. The birth brings a streak of good fortune, resulting in the baby being named Luck. Unfortunately, Luck’s luck cannot defeat nature.
The Goose Father
Short Story by Krys Lee. Sexual tension builds between a South Korean “goose father” and a tenant he takes in after six months’ living alone. The enigmatic tenant, a young man half the landlord’s age, arrives with a goose he believes to be his reincarnated mother.
Drifting House
Short Story by Krys Lee. Two starving, malnourished North Korean boys abandoned by their mother struggle across a snow-covered mountain to try to join her in China. The older boy carries their dying infant sister. Unable to carry her any further, he humanely ends her suffering.
The Imp of the Perverse
Short Story by Edgar Allan Poe. A man facing execution for murder blames his actions on an agent called the “Imp of the Perverse”. The Imp, he argues, is an urge that drives people to do things they shouldn’t for the simple reason that they know it to be wrong.

Lather and Nothing Else
Short Story by Hernando Téllez. A barber who secretly supports a revolutionary cause is torn between his professional duty, his revolutionary duty, and moral qualms about murder when an army captain who has been particularly brutal in putting down the revolt asks for a shave.
The Twelve Months
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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
In the Withaak’s Shade
Short Story by Herman Bosman. A playful story about a farmer who, while conducting a search for lost cattle by lying down on the soft grass under an umbrella thorn (withaak) tree, has an up-close meeting with a leopard. After inspecting the man’s clothing, the leopard lays down beside him.
The Sparrows
Short Story by K. A. Abbas. An embittered Indian man is left alone in the world after his constant ill-treatment of his wife and sons drives them from his home. In his misery, he finds solace and redemption through a family of sparrows nesting in the roof of his hut.