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

American History
Young Adult Story by Judith Ortiz Cofer. A teenage Puerto Rican girl and the boy to whom she is attracted are both outsiders… she because of her thin, shapeless body and physical weakness; he because of his honor student status and Southern drawl. Sadly, their friendship plans are cruelly thwarted.
Vision out of the Corner of One Eye
Quick Read by Luisa Valenzuela. A woman traveling on a crowded bus feels herself being groped. When she tries to move away, more people get on the bus and the groping develops into “fondling” and “jiggling”. Rather than make a scene, she gives the pervert some of his own medicine.
The Door in the Wall
Short Story by H. G. Wells. A precocious five-year old from a loveless household is permitted to walk the streets of London alone. One day he is drawn to a door that opens to an enchanted garden with tame animals, friendly children and a beautiful, loving woman.

Korea
Short Story by John McGahern. A young Irish man is about to leave school. His crafty father tries to encourage him to emigrate to America “for a better life”. The son later learns that what the father is really hoping for is a better life for himself.
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.
Overcoat
Short Story by Ghulam Abbas. A man with the persona of a well-to-do dandy enjoys a leisurely stroll through the streets of Lahore. Everything falls apart after he becomes fascinated with a young couple “who seemed to have stepped out of the pages of a romantic novel”.
The Adventure of the Dancing Men
Novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle. An English squire’s secretive new bride has been receiving messages written in a strange code that appear to terrify her. Sherlock Holmes takes on the case and easily cracks the code, but doesn’t move quickly enough to prevent a murder.

The Enormous Radio
Short Story by John Cheever. A couple are surprised when a new radio begins to pick up conversations from people in surrounding apartments. The woman becomes obsessed with listening in, and the personal secrets she hears discussed (affairs, marital and financial problems, etc.) change her.
Going Fishing
Young Adult Story by Norma Fox Mazer. A plus-sized senior high-schooler who describes herself as “big-footed, big-voiced, big-herself” is having trouble finding her place in the world. Ignored by boys and feeling patronized by her “normal-sized” family, she fantasizes about a white light leading her to somewhere she belongs.
To Da-duh in Memoriam
Short Story by Paule Marshall. During her first visit to her parent’s homeland, a feisty nine-year-old American girl engages in a process of one-upmanship with her eighty-year-old Barbadian grandmother. As the grandmother extols the natural bounty of her country, the girl counters with the modern wonders of New York.