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Jun 2018

Quiz: First Lines of Classic Novels

by ArapahoeKati June 4, 2018

How well do you know these first lines of classic novels?

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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
- Sense and Sensibility
- Emma
- Pride and Prejudice
"He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish."
- The Old Man and the Sea
- The Sun Also Rises
- A Farewell to Arms
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." * Required
- Animal Farm
- 1984
"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Go Set a Watchman
"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
- Great Expectations
- A Tale of Two Cities
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
- War and Peace
- Anna Karenina
"It was a pleasure to burn."
- The Martian Chronicles
- Fahrenheit 451
- Dandelion Wine
"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day."
- Villette
- Jane Eyre
- Shirley
"All this happened, more or less."
- Breakfast of Champions
- Cat's Cradle
- Slaughterhouse-Five
"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."
- Rebecca
- My Cousin Rachel
- Jamaica Inn
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."
- Franny and Zooey
- The Catcher in the Rye
"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
- Love in the Time of Cholera
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
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