Short Fiction

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Quarter 3

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Unit Pre-test / Assessment

To the best of your ability and in complete sentences, please respond to the following questions:
1) What are the defining qualities and/or characteristics of the short story? What makes it different from
other forms of literature?

2) What is the history of the modern short story? What were its origins?

3) Why do we create, tell, and write stories?

4) What significance, if any, do stories have in our lives?

5) List 3 major writers of short fiction and state why they are considered to be highly influential.

6) Is conflict necessary in a story? Can there be meaning without it?