Key to Literature Quiz

Literature Quiz Key

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.

Tom Sawyer___________________________________________________

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.

______________________________________Grapes of Wrath

3.Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again.

_____________________________________Rebecca

4.You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accomplished commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such foreboding.

____________________________________Frankenstein

5."Eh bien, mon prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now no more than family estates of the Bonapartes"

   _________________________________War and Peace

6.I sing of arms and of a man: his fate has made him fugitive...

_____________________________________________The Aneid

7.Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

___________________________Lady Chatterley's Lover

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.

___________________________Animal Farm

9.We are at rest five miles behind the front.

__________________All Quiet on the Western Front

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 . . .

       __________________________Tale of Two Cities

11.The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.

 __________________________________Lord of the Flies

12.Call me Ishmael.

_________________________________Moby Dick

13.It was a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

_______________________________________Pride and Prejudice

14.Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

______________________________________Ullysses

15.It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

_______________________________________1984

16.The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida.

    __________________A Good Man is Hard to Find

17.Ones‑self I sing, a simple separate person.

________________________________Leaves of Grass

                                                             

18.Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head . . .

__________________________________Winnie the Pooh

19.His name was Gaal Dornick and he was just a country boy who had never seen Trantor before.

___________________________________Foundation

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.

________________________________The Robe

21.I address these lines‑‑written in India‑‑to my relatives in England.

_______________________________The Moonstone

22.Morgaine speaks…In my time I have been called many things: sister, lover, priestess, wise-woman, queen.

       __________________________Mists of Avalon

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.

______________________________The Prophet

24.It unrolled slowly, forced to show its colors, curling and snapping back whenever one of us turned loose.

_______________________________Deliverance

25."Run!"  "Where?  Oh, hell!  Let's get out of here! Turk!

Turk! I'm shot!"

_________________________Manchild in the Promised Land

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.

_________________________________Dog of the Wild

27.When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake‑‑not a very big one.

       __________________________Lonesome Dove

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.

_______________________________David Copperfield

29.He rode into our valley in the summer of '89.

________________________________Shane

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.

____________________Autobiography of Malcolm X

31.Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick.

______________________

32.The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out in the hills, resting.

_____________________Red Badge of Courage

33.In the sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes.

____________________________Just So Stories

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.

_____________________________Screwtape Letters

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.

______________________Little House in the Big Woods

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.

______________________The Sword in the Stone or Once and Future King

37.It was a pleasure to burn.

______________________Fahrenheit 451   

38.The mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring cleaning his little home.

_____________________Wind in the Willows