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If You *Actually* Did The Required Reading In High School, This Classic Lit Quotes Quiz Should Be Easyyyy

Famous Classic Literature Quotes Trivia Quiz

If You *Actually* Did The Required Reading In High School, You'll Pass This Lit Quotes Quiz

Match the quote to the book: "I took a deep breath and listened to the old drag of my heart, I am, I am, I am."

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"To love another person is to see the face of God."

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"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."

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"I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be."

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"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...until you climb inside his skin and walk around in it."

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"I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world."

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"She wanted — what some people want throughout life — a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy."

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"Death was a defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate. There was an embrace in death."

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"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."

Match the quote to the book: "You have never loved me. You have only ever thought it pleasant to be with me."

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"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great suffering on earth."

Match the quote to the book: "He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."

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"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."

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"I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it, you learned from that what it was all about."

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"Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another."

Somebody didn't pay attention in AP Literature! Check out some of the books in this quiz!

You don't know your classic literature!

You remember the books you HAD to read in high school and college, but you probably haven't read a lot of classics on your own.

You're pretty familiar with classic literature!

You love classical literature and probably have a favorite literary period as well (I bet you were also emotionally attached to your favorite book in high school, too).

You're a classic literature expert

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If You Actually Did The Required Reading In High School, This Classic Lit Quotes Quiz Should Be Easyyyy

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If You *Actually* Did The Required Reading In High School, This Classic Lit Quotes Quiz Should Be Easyyyy

This post is an entry in BuzzFeed’s 2nd Annual Community Summer Writers’ Challenge, where you can earn $$$ for creating your own lists and quizzes published through September 15, 2022! Check out alllll the details here.

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