Statistics for Short Story Writers

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
"The Tell-Tale Heart"	Edgar Allan Poe	86%
"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"	Rudyard Kipling	68%
"The Snows of Kilimanjaro"	Ernest Hemingway	64%
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"	Washington Irving	64%
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"	Mark Twain	59%
"The Gift of the Magi"	O. Henry	55%
"A Good Man is Hard to Find"	Flannery O'Connor	50%
"Bartleby, the Scrivener"	Herman Melville	50%
"The Lottery"	Shirley Jackson	50%
"The Red-Headed League"	Arthur Conan Doyle	45%
"The Necklace"	Guy de Maupassant	45%
"To Build a Fire"	Jack London	41%
"The Library of Babel"	Jorge Luis Borges	41%
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"	Ambrose Bierce	36%
"A Perfect Day for Bananafish"	J. D. Salinger	36%
"The Minister's Black Veil"	Nathaniel Hawthorne	32%
"The Dead"	James Joyce	27%
"Ivan the Fool"	Leo Tolstoy	27%
"The Lady with a Dog"	Anton Chekhov	23%
"The Nutcracker and the Mouse King"	E.T.A. Hoffmann	23%
A Sportsman's Sketches	Ivan Turgenev	23%
"A Hunger Artist"	Franz Kafka	18%
"The Meek One"	Fyodor Dostoevsky	18%
"The Birds"	Daphne du Maurier	14%
"The Monkey's Paw"	W. W. Jacobs	14%
"Nightfall"	Isaac Asimov	9%
"Désirée's Baby"	Kate Chopin	9%
"Kabuliwala"	Rabindranath Tagore	5%