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When it comes to fiction, are you a fan of the brief and the well-crafted? How well do you know your short story writers? Take the enCompass quiz and find out..

 

 Question 1.
Which Scottish writer, who has written poetry, plays and novels for adults and children, recently turned a hand to short stories with Why Don't You Stop Talking?

Carol Ann Duffy

A.L. Kennedy

Jackie Kay

Irvine Welsh

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 Question 2.
What was the title of Granta-listed Dan Rhodes' collection of short stories, published in 2001?

Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love

Tell Me Everything

Timoleon Vieta Come Home

Lassie Come Home

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 Question 3.
Who won the Pullitzer Prize in 2000 with a collection of short stories set in India and the US, called The Interpreter of Maladies?

Arundhati Roy

Jhumpa Lahiri

Amitav Ghosh

Manil Suri

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 Question 4.
Whose collection of interlinked short stories, Not the End of the World, uses motifs from Greek myth?

Kate Atkinson

Jeffrey Eugenides

Rose Tremain

Joanne Harris

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 Question 5.
Before his novel Voyage to the End of the Room, British writer Tibor Fischer published a collection of short stories with a title that challenged the reader. Which was it?

Don't read this book if you're squeamish

Don't let anyone else read this book

Read this book if you know what's good for you

Don't read this book if you're stupid

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 Question 6.
Which Canadian writer, who is also well known for her novels and poetry, has published the collections Bluebeard's Egg, Murder in the Dark and Wilderness Tips?

Alice Munro

Margaret Atwood

Carol Shields

Anne Michaels

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 Question 7.
What group of British Writers asked us to 'all hail' an anthology of their short fiction which promoted their manifesto for plain, authentic, transparent writing?

The Old Stalwarts

The True Puritans

The New Puritans

The Last of the Mohicans

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 Question 8.
Which African writer published the collection No Sweetness Here, exploring life in Ghana?

Nadine Gordimer

Ama Ata Aidoo

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Mariama Ba

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 Question 9.
Which UK anthology, edited by Fiona Walker and Jessica Adams, brought together short stories by so-called 'chick lit' writers to raise funds for the charity War Child?

Girl's Night In

Girl's Night Out

Ladies Night

The Bumper Book of Chick Lit Stories

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 Question 10.
Which acclaimed Australian writer has published short story collections entitled Scission and Minimum of Two?

Patrick White

Peter Carey

Tim Winton

David Malouf

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