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Famous First Lines: Test Your Literary Knowledge
Are you a literary snob? Take this Quiz And Find Out
   
July 08, 2007 —
Test your skills at matching these first lines from classic novels. 100% qualifies you in BookBuffet’s Literary Elite; 75% and above means you should consider becoming a BookBuffet Moderator!; 50% and up--not bad, you make our Budding Bibliophile category and anything below that signals, Hide the Remote!
Famous First Lines
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Call me Ishmael
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Marley was dead, to begin with.
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All children, except one, grow up.
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For a long time I used to go to bed early.
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Alice was beginning to tire of sitting by her sister on the bank.
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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
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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.
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Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and razor lay crossed.
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When he was thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.
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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.
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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into a giant insect.
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Mother died today.
List of Authors
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A) James Joyce, Ulysses
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B) Herman Melville, Moby Dick
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C) Jane Austen, Pride and Predjudice
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D) Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
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E) Charles Dickens, Christmas Carol
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F) George Eliot, MiddleMarch
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G) Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
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H) F. Scott Fitzgerald, Great Gatsby
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I) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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J) Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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K) D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
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L) George Orwell, 1984
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M) Albert Camus, The Stranger
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N) Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis
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O) J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
Answers
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