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The Short Story (A brief History)

Authored by Harry James

English

10th Grade

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The Short Story (A brief History)
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What are often considered to be the 'origins' of the short story?

Chaucer's 'The Canterbury Tales'

The sharing of stories by early humans around fires

Beatrix Potter's 'Peter Rabbit'

The Mallorquin Rondalles

2.

OPEN ENDED QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

Order the following into what is most often considered the standard story structure:

Rising Action

Exposition

Denounement

Climax

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3.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Which two texts below form the foundations of 'the literary short story'

Shakespeare's Plays

Chaucer's 'The Canterbury Tales'

The 'One Thousand and One Nights'

F Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby'

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Edgar Allan Poe famously defined the short story as a text that can be read in one sitting. He also coined the idea of the... in the short story.

Unity of contemplation

Unity of disorder

Unity of effect

Unity of order

5.

OPEN ENDED QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

Explain in two sentences Anton Chekhov's contribution to the history of the short story

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6.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following are considered established styles of short story:

Event-plot Stories

Chekhovian Stories

Poetic/Mythic Stories

The Fitgeraldian Short Story

7.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

What increased the popularity of the short story in the mid 19th Century

The rise of mass literacy

Advances in printing technology

Rise of the popularity of radio dramas

prohibition of books longer that 100 pages

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