short stories quiz

Which story does this quote come from? "I really did think she was black. I didn't make that up. I really thought so. But now I can't be sure."

Recitatif

What is the setting for Crane's "The Open Boat"?

a dinghy in the ocean

What did Emily refuse to pay in Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"?

her taxes

What is the subject of conflict between the two main characters in Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants"?

a pregnancy

What bothers the narrator the most about the old man in Poe’s "The Tell-Tale Heart"?

his eye

Who wrote "The Birth-Mark"?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Who survived a shipwreck?

Stephen Crane

Who wrote "Recitatif"?

Toni Morrison

Where is the heart at the end of Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart"?

in the floorboards, beating

What is the birthmark shaped like, in "The Birth-Mark" ?

a hand