SSM Exam 2025 Questions and
Answers
"The Tell-Tale Heart" Edgar Allan Poe - ANSWER✔✔-Story of troubled young man
who has a twisted mind and feels the necessity to kill the old man he lives with. The
tone is very intense creepy and makes you feel uneasy all throughout the story.
"The Overcoat" Nikolai Gogol - ANSWER✔✔-A story about a sad old man who has
worked in a factory his whole life and when he finally gets a coat that makes him
noticed by people, its stolen and he is distraught. He haunts people for the rest of the
story after his death, looking for overcoats.
"The Darling" Anton Chekhov - ANSWER✔✔-A young woman is married to a business
man who is away on business alot. when he goes to the city one time he died, and then
she remarries. Everyone pities her, but she can fall in love again so easily it is a bit
disturbing.
"The lady with the little dog" Anton Chekhov - ANSWER✔✔-Story about a married
man who goes to yalta for a break and has yet another affair with a woman. This is a
different affair then his past ones though, because he pursues her after and they try to
make their love work in secret. This is the first time the man realizes he loves someone.
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, "The story of an hour" Kate Chopin - ANSWER✔✔-A woman finds out her husband is
"dead' and she quickly gets over it, almost excited. She then finds out her husband is
actually alive and she has a heart attack.
"Girl" Jamaica Kincaid - ANSWER✔✔-Not an ordinary story format, essentially just a
list of suggestions/commands by a motherly figure to a young girl, trying to shape her
into a respectable young woman.
"The Laugher" Heinrich Boll - ANSWER✔✔-A man has the best laugh and he is paid to
do it, but when he is at home he doesn't laugh and he doesn't seem to find happiness
through his laughter.
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" James Thurber - ANSWER✔✔-A story about an aging
man who lives a pretty uneventful life on the surface and to the community and his
wife, but the author gives us flashes of the protagonist's fake, imaginary life.
"The Destructors" Graham Greene - ANSWER✔✔-Some young kids - post world war 2-
were mischevious and decided to pull a prank and take down an old mans house
because it was the last thing standing from the town before the bombings and war.
"The Lesson" Toni Cade Bambara - ANSWER✔✔-A black lady who is one of few in the
community with an eduction, who teaches these young kids a lesson by taking them to
a toy store to show them the large divide between poor and rich.
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Answers
"The Tell-Tale Heart" Edgar Allan Poe - ANSWER✔✔-Story of troubled young man
who has a twisted mind and feels the necessity to kill the old man he lives with. The
tone is very intense creepy and makes you feel uneasy all throughout the story.
"The Overcoat" Nikolai Gogol - ANSWER✔✔-A story about a sad old man who has
worked in a factory his whole life and when he finally gets a coat that makes him
noticed by people, its stolen and he is distraught. He haunts people for the rest of the
story after his death, looking for overcoats.
"The Darling" Anton Chekhov - ANSWER✔✔-A young woman is married to a business
man who is away on business alot. when he goes to the city one time he died, and then
she remarries. Everyone pities her, but she can fall in love again so easily it is a bit
disturbing.
"The lady with the little dog" Anton Chekhov - ANSWER✔✔-Story about a married
man who goes to yalta for a break and has yet another affair with a woman. This is a
different affair then his past ones though, because he pursues her after and they try to
make their love work in secret. This is the first time the man realizes he loves someone.
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, "The story of an hour" Kate Chopin - ANSWER✔✔-A woman finds out her husband is
"dead' and she quickly gets over it, almost excited. She then finds out her husband is
actually alive and she has a heart attack.
"Girl" Jamaica Kincaid - ANSWER✔✔-Not an ordinary story format, essentially just a
list of suggestions/commands by a motherly figure to a young girl, trying to shape her
into a respectable young woman.
"The Laugher" Heinrich Boll - ANSWER✔✔-A man has the best laugh and he is paid to
do it, but when he is at home he doesn't laugh and he doesn't seem to find happiness
through his laughter.
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" James Thurber - ANSWER✔✔-A story about an aging
man who lives a pretty uneventful life on the surface and to the community and his
wife, but the author gives us flashes of the protagonist's fake, imaginary life.
"The Destructors" Graham Greene - ANSWER✔✔-Some young kids - post world war 2-
were mischevious and decided to pull a prank and take down an old mans house
because it was the last thing standing from the town before the bombings and war.
"The Lesson" Toni Cade Bambara - ANSWER✔✔-A black lady who is one of few in the
community with an eduction, who teaches these young kids a lesson by taking them to
a toy store to show them the large divide between poor and rich.
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