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First sentences in world literature - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 160 times
- The average score is 10 of 26
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| "Call me Ishmael." | Moby Dick | 87%
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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." | Pride and Prejudice | 83%
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| “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” | 1984 | 82%
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| "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous insect." | The Metamorphosis | 75%
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| "It was a pleasure to burn." | Fahrenheit 451 | 70%
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| “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.” | The Catcher in the Rye | 65%
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| "Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing." | Don Quixote | 59%
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| "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." | Anna Karenina | 57%
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| “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.” | One Hundred Years of Solitude | 51%
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| "‘Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." | Rebecca | 49%
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| "Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested." | The Trial | 48%
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| "Mother died today." | The Stranger | 43%
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| "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 Bell Jar | 39%
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| "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 | 30%
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| "We slept in what had once been the gymnasium." | The Handmaid's Tale | 26%
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| "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed." | Ulysses | 24%
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| "All this happened, more or less." | Slaughterhouse-Five | 23%
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| "I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man." | Notes from Underground | 14%
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| "There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it." | The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | 13%
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| "He—for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it—was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters." | Orlando | 12%
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| "For a long time, I went to bed early." | Swann's Way | 12%
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| "The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new." | Murphy | 5%
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| "To the worm who first gnawed on the cold flesh of my corpse, I dedicate with fond remembrance these Posthumous Memoirs" | The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas | 5%
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| "This morning Rino telephoned. I thought he wanted money again and I was ready to say no. But that was not the reason for the phone call: his mother was gone." | My Brilliant Friend | 3%
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| "Snowman wakes before dawn." | Oryx and Crake | 3%
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| "Early in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway. At 0627 hours on January 1, 1975, Alfred Archibald Jones was dressed in corduroy and sat in a fume-filled Cavalier Musketeer Estate facedown on the steering wheel, hoping judgement would not be too heavy upon him." | White Teeth | 3%
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