2.After+reading+this+selection,+would+you+like+to+read+a+longer+version+of+the+story?+Why+or+why+not?

NO, because some things in the story didn't make much sense to me, such as "and a little dog, nameless and mongrel and many-fathered...even if they still call it just noise(655)." I didn't get how such a minor charater in the story took a whole paragraph to explain.