Use The Short Story Writing Quiz to test yourself on the development of the short story as a form of literature and how ballads, fables, fairy tales, and epic poems gave birth to this unique form of writing. This quiz will test you on some of literature's classic short stories: Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle," Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," and Katherine Mansfield's "The Doll's House." This online quiz contains 25 questions from a pool of over 100 thereby allowing repeat use. We recommend that students study the relevant videos provided on this site on this subject before attempting this quiz.
