Yellow Moepels – 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

Bible
Short Story by Tobias Wolff. A schoolteacher faces a woman’s worst fears when a man comes up behind her in a parking lot, demands her keys, and forces her into her car. Her abductor wants justice for his son, who is about to be expelled from her school for cheating.
Fever
Novelette by John Wideman. Although its central character is an African-American church leader assisting a controversial white doctor, this grim story is prefaced as a tribute to all the people (mostly free African-Americans) who heroically nursed the sick and buried the dead during the Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic of 1793.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Short Story by James Thurber. A meek, middle-aged man with a dominating, nagging wife leads a boring suburban life. His way of dealing with this without going crazy is to escape whenever he can into imaginary worlds where he acts out fantasies involving wondrous feats and acts of bravery.

Fleur
Short Story by Louise Edrich. A mystical Native-American woman working in a small-town butchery challenges her male co-workers’ masculinity. She is not only strong, independent and confident, but has seemingly magical powers that lead to her brutal rape and the “accidental” death of her three abusers.
Il Colore Ritrovato
An impresario who discovered the greatest opera singer in the world has just come across a young street performer who he believes could be even better. After seeing how fame and fortune has affected his first discovery, he has doubts about immediately signing her up.
Rex Ex Machina
Quick Read by Frederic Max. A letter from a dying man to his only son explains something he has been hiding for almost forty years. It tells how he had once been a spy and was sent on a top-secret mission to destroy a machine that threatened the free world.
Wise Folks
German Folktale. A cruel farmer is angry with his wife for being cheated out of two cows. He promises not beat her for it if can find someone more foolish. He soon finds one: a widow who is worried about how well her dead husband is doing in Heaven.

The Voice of God / Holy Panchayat
Short Story by Premchand. A life-long friendship is broken when one rules against the other at a village council meeting. The two reunite after the roles are reversed and the aggrieved friend, who still holds a grudge against the other, has to judge a complaint against him.
Liberty
Grade 7-8 Story by Julia Alvarez. As a family from a troubled country prepares to clandestinely flee to America, their speckled dog "Liberty" becomes a symbol of both the freedom they hope to find there, and the difficulties that can come with trying to win it.
The American Embassy
Short Story by Chimamanda Adichie. A Nigerian woman has a seemingly perfect case for U.S. asylum. Her anti-government journalist husband has already fled to America, and some troops searching for him accidentally shot their four-year-old son. Yet mid-way through the visa interview, she decides not to continue.