The Chosen Vessel – Quiz

The Chosen Vessel – 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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Dante and the Lobster
Short Story by Samuel Beckett. An absurdist comedy spanning an afternoon in the life of a solitary, eccentric student having trouble understanding Dante’s Divine Comedy. He is fanatical about unimportant things (such as making the perfect toasted sandwich) and apathetic towards the things that matter.
The Best Girlfriend You Never Had
Novelette by Pam Houston. A woman comes to San Francisco seeking order and romantic love. Instead, she finds chaos and frustration. Obsessed with finding the right man, she always identifies with the wrong ones. The one man she has strong feelings for calls himself “the best girlfriend you never had”.
I Could See the Smallest Things
Quick Read by Raymond Carver. A woman’s encounter with a neighbour tending his garden in the middle of the night highlights the differences in their lives. He has moved on from problems in his life, while she and her husband live alienated, unsatisfying lives, too afraid to embrace change.
The Flowers
Quick Read by Alice Walker. A ten-year-old farm girl finds the decomposed body of a decapitated man while collecting flowers in a field. This doesn’t seem to faze her, but when she stoops to pick a wild rose she notices something else on the ground that ruins her summer.
The Direction of the Road
Short Story by Ursula Le Guin. A story where the protagonist is a ‘murderous’ roadside oak tree. As the road develops from a bridle trail to a tarred highway, the tree laments differences in the environment and human behavior. It also comes up with alternative interpretations of relativity and eternity.

The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind
Short Story by Ray Bradbury. In an allegory of the nuclear arms race the Mandarins of two Chinese cities compete to see which has the most threatening wall design, impoverishing their citizens in the process. Fortunately, sanity prevails. They talk and agree to adopt complementary designs.
The Doll’s House / The Washerwoman’s Children
Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield and Witi Ihimaera. Two sisters are shunned and teased by other children because of their mother’s lowly job. In the sequel, one of them has achieved success far beyond any other student from their school and is guest of honor at the school’s centenary.
Filial Sentiments of a Parricide
Short Story by Marcel Proust. In a newspaper commentary about a parricide-suicide committed by a highly respected French businessman, Proust philosophizes about memories, the nature of death, and the observation that all children commit a slow form of parricide through the anxiety and pain they cause their parents.
Little Claus and Great Claus
Grade 5-6 Story by H. C. Andersen. A poor farmer who develops a talent for swindling people invents stories to explain the source of his newfound wealth to an envious neighbor. When the greedy neighbor tries to make money the same way, he suffers greatly.
Women in Their Beds
Short story by Gina Berriault. A struggling young actress has just begun a day job as a social worker in the women’s ward of a city hospital. With no formal training, she cannot maintain clinical detachment and begins to identify with the suffering, often troubled women in the ward.