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The Bet – 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 Garden Party
Short Story by Katherine Mansfield. A wealthy family enjoy an ostentatious garden party in the spacious grounds of their mansion, well aware that the father of a poverty-stricken family living within hearing distance died earlier the same day. Only one family member is sensitive to the poor family’s plight.
Dog Star
Short Story by Arthur C. Clarke. Despite the title, the story has nothing to do with stars of the celestial kind. An introverted astronomer finds and raises a lost puppy. On two occasions, the dog’s heightened senses save his life. The second time, the dog had been long dead.
The Willows
Novella by Algernon Blackwood. Two canoeists traveling through the swollen Danube delta camp on a small island that sits on the boundary between the known world and another. A malevolent presence has become aware of their existence, and stalks the creeping willows looking for a human sacrifice.
Who Will Greet You At Home
Short Story by Lesley Nneka Arimah. In this surreal horror story, craft dolls nurtured for a year become “flesh”. In the interim they feed, move and act like babies, but in doll form. There are rules. When the impoverished protagonist desperate to have a child breaks one, bad things happen.
The Harvest
Quick Read by Tomás Rivera. An older member of a group of Mexican-American seasonal farm workers walks alone into the fields each afternoon, refusing to allow anyone to follow. He is single with no family, sparking rumors that he either is hiding his wages somewhere, or has found buried treasure.

The Big True
Novelette by Dina Nayeri. Following his wife’s death and his daughter’s graduation from Harvard, a once famous Iranian sitar player chooses the simple life of a drifter. This and his clumsiness with technology causes a rift with his daughter, which is resolved when he comes to understand the “big true”.
Odour of Chrysanthemums
Novelette by D. H. Lawrence. A woman living in an English coal-mining village feels trapped in an unhappy world of her husband’s making. Her speech and behavior suggest that she had aspired to a better life. His accidental death gives her a new perspective on their life together.
Great Day
Novelette by David Malouf. A retired senior public servant is consumed by thoughts of death. Two linked events, the destruction of a family museum and the subsequent moving words of a usually shy, tongue-tied family member bring a sense of peace to the old man and unification to the family.
The Son
Short Story by Horacio Quiroga. A thirteen-year-old boy goes hunting in woods near his home. His father becomes concerned when the boy does not return at the agreed time. Fearing the worst, he begins a frantic search, growing increasingly anxious until finding, or thinking he finds, him safe and unharmed.
The Rocking-Horse Winner
Short Story by D. H. Lawrence. A young boy’s parents seem more interested in their social position than their children. He desperately wants his mother's love and approval and, as she is always complaining about not having enough money, he comes up with a drastic approach to getting some.