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Sorry, But Only Literature Majors Are Scoring 12/16 On This Classic Novel Quote Pop Quiz

Can You Guess These Classic Books By Their First Lines?

_Slaughterhouse-Five_ by Kurt Vonnegut

_One Hundred Years of Solitude_ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."

_Moby Dick_ by Herman Melville

_The Bell Jar_ by Sylvia Plath

"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York."

_The Color Purple_ by Alice Walker

"You better not never tell nobody but God."

_The Great Gatsby_ by F. Scott Fitzgerald

"In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since."  


_Dante's Inferno_

"Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark.  
For the straightforward pathway had been lost."  


_Pride and Prejudice_ by Jane Austen

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


_Their Eyes Were Watching God_ by Zora Neale Hurston

"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."

_Frankenstein_ by Mary Shelley

"You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise, which you have regarded with such evil forebodings."

_1984_ by George Orwell

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

_Dracula_ by Bram Stoker

"3 May. Bistritz. Left Munich at 8:35 P.M, on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late."

_Anna Karenina_ by Leo Tolstoy

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

_Animal Farm_ by George Orwell

"Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes."

_Little Women_ by Louisa May Alcott

"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents."

_A Tale of Two Cities_ by Charles Dickens

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

This one had the better of your memory and you just couldn't recall most of them. But hey, it's the fun that counts!

You Didn't Pass

Looks like someone was paying attention in English class! You know your classics like any high school English teacher. Good job!

You Passed

Some of these were really difficult, but you crushed it! You probably love reading as a whole, but classics will always hold a special place in your heart!

You Aced It!

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