Test your knowledge of the Short Story Genre with our Incredible Short Story Quiz.
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest types of literature and has existed in the form of legends, mythic tales, folk tales, fairy tales, tall tales, fables and anecdotes in various ancient communities around the world. The modern short story developed in the early 19th century.
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#1. Nikolai Gogol wrote a famous short story in 1836 about which body part?
Unlucky! The Nose was the title of this short story
#2. In Franz Kafka's Metamorphis, Gregor Samsa wakes one morning transformed in a...?
Unlucky! poor Gregor wakes up as an insect
#3. The movie Stand by Me was based on which Stephen King novella?
Unlucky! Stand by Me was based on the novella The Body
#4. Which French Author wrote The Necklace in 1884?
Unlucky! Guy De Maupassant wrote The Necklace
#5. Washington Irving penned the short story The Legend of ......?
Unlucky! The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was the title
#6. Who wrote The Martian Chronicles?
Unlucky! Ray Bradbury wrote The Martian Chronicles in 1950
#7. Annie Proulx's famous short story featured which mountain?
Unlucky! Annie Proulx wrote Brokeback Mountain in 1997
#8. A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings was published in 1968 by?
Unlucky! It was Gabriel Garcia Marquez who wrote it
#9. James Joyce published a collection of short stories called?
Unlucky! The Dubliners was the short story collection
#10. A Good Man is Hard to Find was written by?
Unlucky! Flannery O’Connor was the author in 1953
Here is a selection of great short story collections
And here is a link to free short stories available for download.
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