Guess the Book: Famous Passages Edition
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Created 6/19/2024
Test your literary knowledge with this quiz featuring famous passages from well-known books. Can you identify the book based on a single quote?
1. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...”
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
2. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Animal Farm by George Orwell
1984 by George Orwell
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
3. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
4. “Call me Ishmael.”
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
The Odyssey by Homer
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
5. “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
1984 by George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
6. “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
7. “All this happened, more or less.”
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
8. “It was a pleasure to burn.”
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
9. “The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Murphy by Samuel Beckett
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
10. “Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.”
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
11. “riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay...”
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Ulysses by James Joyce
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
12. “Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.”
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
13. “You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'; but that ain't no matter.”
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
14. “There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
15. “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.”
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
16. “All children, except one, grow up.”
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
17. “It is a sin to write this.”
Anthem by Ayn Rand
1984 by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
18. “Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.”
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
19. “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
20. “It was love at first sight.”
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
