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Quiz by Sarah Egan, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Sarah Egan
almost 9 years ago
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Question 1
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"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Answer
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Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1877; trans. Constance Garnett)
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Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987)
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Graham Greene, The End of the Affair (1951)
Question 2
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Answer
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Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (1963)
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George Eliot, Middlemarch (1872)
Question 3
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"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."
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Charles Dickens, David Copperfield (1850)
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)
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J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
Question 4
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Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851)
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Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1955)
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Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
Question 5
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"riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs."
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James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (1939)
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James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
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James Joyce, Ulysses (1922)
Question 6
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Albert Camus, The Stranger (1942; trans. Stuart Gilbert)
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Alice Walker, The Color Purple (1982)
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Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Question 7
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"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
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George Orwell, 1984 (1949)
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Franz Kafka, The Trial (1925; trans. Breon Mitchell)
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Samuel Beckett, Murphy (1938)
Question 8
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"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
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William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984)
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Toni Morrison, Paradise (1998)
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Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (1961)
Question 9
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"All this happened, more or less."
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Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
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William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (1929)
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J. G. Ballard, Crash (1973)
Question 10
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"Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space."
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Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye (1988)
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Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
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Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (2002)
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