Yellow Moepels

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

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Burning in the Rain
Short Story by Dambudzo Marechera. A central motif here is the “ape in the mirror,” which increasingly dominates the protagonist’s psyche. This could represent Marechera’s personal demons (mental illness, alcohol, drugs and violence) and/or be a metaphor for the devastating “guerrilla war” that brought Robert Mugabe’s ANU government to power.
If You Sing like That for Me
Novelette by Akhil Sharma. After an arranged marriage, a young Indian woman is initially fearful and distant from her husband. To her delight, she realizes shortly afterwards that she has fallen in love with him. Sadly, her husband doesn’t feel the same way. To him, she is a mere commodity.
Last Evenings on Earth
Novelette by Roberto Bolaño. A father and son go on vacation together. The two are very different, and a tone of impending disaster builds throughout the story. When danger finally strikes, they face it together. We aren’t told the outcome, because it’s not important to the story.
The Things They Carried
Short Story by Tim O’Brien. In addition to their military and survival equipment, soldiers also carry emotional burdens. A young American officer serving in Vietnam learns that to do his duty and survive the war, he must find a way to let go of his emotional load.
Kabuliwallah
Short Story by Rabindranath Tagore. An Afghani fruit-seller (Kabuliwallah) forms an unlikely friendship with the precocious five-year-old daughter of a middle-class Bengali writer. Many years later, on learning why the fruit-seller had spent so much time with his daughter, the writer and Kabuliwallah form an instant bond.

Unnecessary Things
Quick Read by Tatyana Tolstaya. A woman finds the remains of her childhood teddy bear while rummaging through a cupboard in her parents’ house. The find brings back long-suppressed memories and fosters a feeling of overwhelming nostalgia. Sleeping next to the bear that night, she decides it has to go.
The Open Boat
Novelette by Stephen Crane. An inspiring story of the real-life ordeal of four men whose ship sinks, leaving them alone in a small life-boat to face a stormy sea. A defining feature is the way men from such diverse backgrounds were able to maintain their self-discipline and work together.
The Reluctant Dragon
Grade 5-6 Story by Kenneth Grahame. This entertaining tale is a parody of the legend of St. George and the Dragon. However, here there is no princess about to become the dragon’s next meal, and the dragon in question is friendly, cultured and, as he admits himself, lazy.
Mowgli’s Brothers
Grade 5-6 Story by Rudyard Kipling. When an abandoned “man cub” is adopted by a family of wolves, the wolf parents face two challenges: having the child accepted as a member of the Pack, and protecting him from a crazed tiger who does not follow the “Law of the Jungle”.
Dead Stars
Short Story by Paz Marquez Benitez. Set in a culture and time where honor outweighs love, a young lawyer delays marrying his fiancé because it doesn’t feel right. Although he falls in love with another woman, he keeps his word, marries the fiancé, and dreams of the other.