Donald Barthelme: The School

The setting of a short story is... 

• the main idea, the lesson or message in the short story.
• the point of greatest tension or intensity.
• the person who is telling the story.
• the description of where and when the story takes place.

Give the correct order of the structure of a short story or novel.

• Introduction-Rising action-Climax-Falling action-Conclusion
• Introduction-Rising action-Climax-Conclusion- Falling action
• Introduction-Climax-Rising action-Conclusion-Falling Action
• Rising action-Introduction-Climax-Conclusion-Falling action

Other words to describe a short story are...

• blasters and short-shorts
• short-shorts and novels
• prose poems and novelas
• sketches and novels

The introduction of a story provides the... 

• background information that the reader needs to know: the climax, the characters and the conflict.
• background information that the reader needs to know: the time, the place and the conflict.
• background information that the reader needs to know: the setting, the characters and the conflict.
• background information that the reader needs to know: the action, the characters and the conflict.

The rising action in a story is...

• the part in which the conflict or the problem is very clear. The main character tries to solve the problem.
• is the part which tells how the struggle ends.
• the turning point of the story.

What is the climax in the short story "The Story of An Hour" by Kate Chopin?

• The moment the doctors come in and say Louise had died of heart disease--of the joy that kills.
• The moment her sister Josephine tells her the name of Mrs Mallard's husband is leading the list of "killed." 
• The moment Mrs. Mallard declares that she is free.

The narrator in the short story The School by Donald Barthelme is... 

• a first person narrator: a kind of narrator that is: in the story, telling their own story, uses 'I', 'Me', 'My'
• an omniscient narrator: all-knowing point of view, follows all of the characters
• a third person narrator: kind of narrator that is outside the story, telling someone else's story, uses 'He', 'She', 'They'

In which order does Barthelme order the deaths in his short story The School?

• trees, plants, animals, children and adults
• adults, children, animals, plants and trees 
• animals, plants, adults, trees and children
• children, plants, adults, trees and animals

What is the setting of place in the short story The School by Bartelme?

• A playground
• A school
• A living room
• A teacher's room

Who is/are named "Edgar" in the short story The School by Donald Barthelme?

• one of the pupils
• the gerbil and the puppy
• the narrator and the puppy
• the puppy