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Toy Shop – 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 Looking-Glass
Short Story by Anton Chekhov. A young woman dreams about getting married and settling down happily with the perfect man. One night, she has a vision of the reality of living and raising a family in rural Russia and asks herself: “Why is it, what is it for?”
A Day’s Wait
Quick Read by Ernest Hemingway. A doctor attributes a boy’s high temperature to influenza and prescribes medicine. Over the course of the day, the boy remains “detached” and begins to act strangely. He is sure the doctor and his father are hiding something more serious from him.
The Quilt / Lihaaf
Short Story by Ismat Chughtai. A mother leaves her young daughter in the care of her adopted sister. The sister’s husband spends his time entertaining “young, fair and slim-waisted boys”, while she spends her day being “attended to” by a personal servant/masseuse who also shares her bed.
Waters of Gold
Chinese Folktale. The fortunes of a kind-hearted woman living in poverty change for the better when she helps a filthy, foul-smelling beggar who everyone else in her village ignores. Later, her greedy neighbour experiences a different result when, hoping for a similar reward, she helps the same man.
The Homemaker / Gharwali
Short Story by Ismat Chughtai. An orphan growing up on the streets learns that her body is her only asset. Alluring and without shame, she would provide sex for money, on credit, or as charity. Things change when a friend suggests that a respectable shopkeeper employ her as a housemaid.

The Autopsy (Dissection)
Quick Read by Georg Heym. This early example of expressionist literature describes an autopsy in the form of a prose poem. The backstory of love and beauty humanizes the dead man, while extensive use of literary devices softens the gore and lends a surreal quality to the story.
All the King’s Horses
Short Story by Kurt Vonnegut. Sixteen plane crash survivors captured by rebels must play a game of human chess in which only those left standing will live. The survivor's “king” faces a hard decision when the only way to win is to sacrifice a “knight” represented by his son.
The Postmaster / Stationmaster
Short Story by Alexander Pushkin. A flirtatious girl leaves her impoverished Russian village with a passing army officer. Her father tracks the officer to a distant city and finds them together. Concluding that she is a “kept woman”, he leaves in disgust. His snap judgement has dire consequences.
The Horse Dealer’s Daughter
Short Story by D. H. Lawrence. In an act of desperation, a lonely woman facing a life of servitude and drudgery decides to join her much-loved dead mother by drowning herself. Her rescue by the passing town doctor results in an epiphany that awakens feelings of love and desire.
The Medicine Bag
Grade 7-8 Story by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve. A Native American boy is proud of his ethnic identity as portrayed by “stately TV Indians”, but embarrassed to invite friends home when his ailing great-grandfather comes to visit, and mortified at the prospect of having to wear a family heirloom.