College
of Library and Information Science Walling
University
of South Carolina Spring
2000
Literature Quiz
The
following are first lines from selected well known novels, poems, stories, or
essays. What is the title of the
literary work from which each is taken? (This is just for fun‑‑no grade!)
1."Tom!"
No answer. "Tom!" No answer.
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2.To the red country and part of the gray country
of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred
earth.
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3.Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again.
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4.You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accomplished
commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such foreboding.
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5."Eh bien, mon prince, so Genoa and Lucca
are now no more than family estates of the Bonapartes"
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6.I sing of arms and of a man: his fate has made
him fugitive...
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7.Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse
to take it tragically.
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8.Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen‑houses
for the night but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes.
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9.We are at rest five miles behind the front.
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10.It was the best of times, it was the worst of
times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . .
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11.The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the
last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.
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12.Call me Ishmael.
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13.It was 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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14.Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing
a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
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15.It was a bright cold day in April, and the
clocks were striking thirteen.
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16.The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida.
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17.Ones‑self I sing, a simple separate person.
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18.Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now,
bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head . . .
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19.His name was Gaal Dornick and he was just a
country boy who had never seen Trantor before.
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20.Because she was only fifteen and busy with her
growing up, Lucia's periods of reflection were brief and infrequent; but this
morning she felt weighted with responsibility.
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21.I address these lines‑‑written in India‑‑to my
relatives in England.
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22.Morgaine
speaks…In my time I have been called many
things: sister, lover, priestess, wise-woman, queen.
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23.Almustafa,
the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own day, had waited twelve
years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him
back to the isle of his birth.
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24.It
unrolled slowly, forced to show its colors, curling and snapping back whenever
one of us turned loose.
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25."Run!" "Where?
Oh, hell! Let's get out of here!
Turk!
Turk! I'm shot!"
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26.Buck
did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing,
not alone for himself, but for every tidewater dog, strong of muscle and with
warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.
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27.When
Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake‑‑not a
very big one.
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28.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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29.He rode into our valley in the summer of '89.
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30.When
my mother was pregnant with me, she told me later, a party of hooded Ku Klux
Klan riders galloped up to our home in Omaha, Nebraska, one night.
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31.Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick.
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32.The
cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army
stretched out in the hills, resting.
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33.In
the sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate
fishes.
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34.My
dear Wormwood, I note what you say about guiding your patient's reading and
taking care that he sees a good deal of his materialist friend.
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35.Once
upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of
Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of logs.
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36.On
Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays it was Cowl Hand and Summulae Logicales, while
the rest of the week it was the Organon, Repetition and Astrology.
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37.It was a pleasure to burn.
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38.The
mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring cleaning his little
home.
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