Fiction

Question 1

20/20

Answer 1

Linda Brewer

Bill and Ruthie go on a car ride and ruthie sees things

Question 2

Elephant in the village of the blind

Answer 2

Unknown

Blind villagers are being introduced to an elephant for the first time

Question 3

Flight patterns

Answer 3

Alexie

William is an Indian with a daughter and a wife. He leaves his home and gets into a taxi with a guy that tells him a story of his life.

Question 4

A conversation with my father

Answer 4

Grace Paley

A daughter is visiting her elderly father in the hospital and he asks her to write him a story

Question 5

Puffed rice and meatballs

Answer 5

Vapnyar

After doing it with some guy, Katya tells her lover stories of when she was younger in a communist country. One story is where she first got breasts and the second story is of when she decided not to eat lunch while two boys ate her scraps

Question 6

Cathedral

Answer 6

Carver

A guys wife has her old friend ray over who is blind. They all end up smoking weed and the blind guy and the husband draw a cathedral

Question 7

Roman fever

Answer 7

Wharton

Two woman Mrs Ansley and Mrs slade are in Rome and talk about their daughters and their past

Question 8

The jewelry

Answer 8

Guy de Maupassant

A guys wife dies and he tries to sell her fake jewelry and finds out its real

Question 9

The cask of amontillado

Answer 9

Poe

A guy believes another guy has insulted him and therefore killed him by burying him in a tomb like thing

Question 10

Girl

Answer 10

Kincade

Just a list of stuff her mom has said to her

Question 11

Puppy

Answer 11

Saunders

Two sides of the story. One family is trying to buy a puppy and the family selling the puppy is messed up

Question 12

Boys and girls

Answer 12

Munroe

Older sister works the farm and a horse gets lose and she lets it go

Question 13

Barn burning

Answer 13

Faulkner

A man and his family keep moving around and at each place the father gets into a tiff with someone and eventually burns their barn down

Question 14

A&P

Answer 14

Updike

Guys works at a store as a cashier and some young girls walk in in swimsuits and his boss yells at them and he quits

Question 15

A rose for Emily

Answer 15

Faulkner

Emily’s father dies who was abusive and she meets homer her lover who leaves and come back and she kills him with poison and lays him in her bed for forty years

Question 16

The monster

Answer 16

Litt

A monster goes through its life knowing it is a monster. It knows little things like how to fead itself. He knows he is a monster but shows no monstrous behavior

Question 17

Lusus naturae

Answer 17

Atwood

A little girl who becomes a monster. Her family fakes her death and she lives in her room for the rest of her life until the townspeople come to kill her

Question 18

St. Lucy’s home for girls raised by wolves

Answer 18

Russel

Girls raised by wolves go to learn human ways at a home and there’s a dance

Question 19

Use of force

Answer 19

Williams

Doctor comes to treat little girl and he likes hurting her and she has a disease he finds out

Question 20

The lady with the dog

Answer 20

Chekhov

A married man meets a lady and he has no feelings for her but eventually falls in love and she leaves and he leaves after her and thy decided to see each other some more

Question 21

The birthmark

Answer 21

Hawthorne

A wife has a birthmark that her husband hates so they decide to remove it and she dies

Question 22

Good country people

Answer 22

O’Connor

Girl loses leg as a kid and when she’s around thirty and it comes to her house to sell bibles and they start hanging out and he takes her leg

Question 23

The yellow wallpaper

Answer 23

Perkins-Gilman

Minnie moves to a summer house with her husband and doctor. He thinks she has nervous depression and he advices her to do nothing. She starts a secret journal to occupy her mind. She writes about how menacing the yellow wall paper is. Her husband threatens to send her away. She eventually sees a woman creeping behind the wallpaper. One night she tears at the paper to free the trapped woman. She becomes insane and he husband passes out when he sees her

Question 24

A jury of her peers

Answer 24

Glaspell

Martha leaves her farm house with a group of neighbors and her husband and the sheriff. They all go to another neighbors farmhouse (Wright’s) in their kitchen. The sheriff asks Martha’s husband what he witnessed. He says he asked mr Wright a question and he refused an offer. He went to his house other time and Martha’s husband noticed that Mrs weight looked uncomfortable. Mrs Wright said that her husband was home but he was dead. She said he died of a rope around his kneck. Minnie is going to jail for the crime. Martha goes to grab clothes for Minnie and find a red box with a dead bird.

Question 25

The hunger artist

Answer 25

Kafka

A guy is on a hunger fast for people’s entertainment and he eventually dies

Question 26

The rocking horse winner

Answer 26

D.H. Lawrence

A young boy hears his house talk to him and he starts to place bets on horses and wins money. His mom starts to demand all of his winnings and he dies