| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Farmyard creatures overthrow their old masters, only to discover that the new ones are just as bad. | Animal Farm | 96%
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| A lawyer's children watch as he attempts to defend an innocent black man in the deep South. | To Kill A Mockingbird | 71%
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| The protagonist attempts to rebel but eventually comes to love the dystopian regime in charge of every aspect of their lives- even their thoughts. | Nineteen eighty-four | 68%
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| English scholar pursues a sexual relationship with his 12 year old stepdaughter. | Lolita | 65%
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| A Danish prince contemplates murdering the uncle who killed his father and married his mother. | Hamlet | 63%
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| A cathedral bell-ringer attempts to save a beautiful gypsy woman from his obsessive adoptive father. | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | 59%
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| Epic set ten years after the Trojan war, with a soldier's family awaiting his return while he battles mythological creatures and gods to return home. | The Odyssey | 56%
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| A family caught in the Dust Bowl in the Great Depression set out to start a new life in California. | The Grapes of Wrath | 52%
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| Books are outlawed in future America and book burning is commonplace; the protagonist joins a group of exiled book-lovers hoping to rebuild society. | Fahrenheit 451 | 48%
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| A gentleman sets out to restore chivalry to the world, along with his simple farmer sidekick. | Don Quixote | 44%
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| A man travels along the Congo with a trading company and becomes increasingly intrigued by stories of a man acting as a demigod over the African natives. | Heart of Darkness | 44%
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| A story told non-chronologically, with a World War II fighter pilot attempting to find a way out of a war riddled with paradoxes and deaths. | Catch-22 | 43%
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| Set between London and Paris in the time of the French Revolution, a cynical lawyer finds redemption by saving the husband of the woman he loves. | A Tale of Two Cities | 42%
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| A former student murders a pawnbroker and her half-sister in an attempt to resolve his financial troubles, then attempts to cover up the act. | Crime and Punishment | 39%
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| A Moorish general marries an upper-class Venetian woman and is consumed by jealousy at the provocation of his cunning ensign. | Othello | 34%
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| A French sailor spends years in prison plotting revenge on the men who framed him for a crime he did not commit. | The Count of Monte Cristo | 34%
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| A soldier in World War II witnesses the fire-bombing of Dresden and in later life is visited by aliens. | Slaughterhouse 5 | 33%
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| The story of several generations of a family in a small town in South America filled with incest, isolation and the ghosts of the past. | One Hundred Years of Solitude | 31%
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| A man accused of an unknown crime fights to appeal for his freedom against a bureaucratic system. | The Trial | 26%
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| Follows the family of a child born at midnight on the day India's independence was declared. | Midnight's Children | 20%
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| The Devil comes to Moscow with his minions and causes trouble; a young woman makes a deal with him to save her lover, who has written a novel set in biblical times. | The Master and Margarita | 18%
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| A man's three estranged legitimate sons come together after financial troubles and then become potential suspects in their father's murder. | The Brothers Karamazov | 12%
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| The lives and philosophies of a Czech surgeon, his wife, his lover, a Swiss professor and a dog in 1960s/1970s Europe. | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | 11%
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| A woman finds true love in her third marriage, only for her to have to kill him in self-defence after he is bitten by a rabid dog. | Their Eyes Were Watching God | 3%
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