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Line	Book	% Correct
Call me Ishmael	Moby Dick	100%
It was a bright day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.	1984	82%
It was a pleasure to burn	Fahrenheit 451	65%
Tell me Muse, the story of that resourceful man who was driven to wander far after and wide after he had sacked the holy citadel of Troy	Odyssey	65%
In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind ...	Don Quixote	59%
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	53%
All children, except one, grow up.	Peter Pan	47%
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ...	Tale of Two Cities	47%
Marley was dead, to begin with.	A Christmas Carol	41%
In a hole in the ground there lived a ____.	The Hobbit	41%
Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes.	Animal Farm	35%
When Gregor Samsa woke up from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed right there in his bed into some sort of monstrous insect.	Metamorphosis	35%
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.	To Kill a Mockingbird	35%
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank.	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	29%
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.	Anna Karenina	29%
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	29%
In the week before the departure to Arrakis, when all the final scurrying about had reached a nearly unbearable frenzy, an old crone came to visit the mother of the boy, Paul.	Dune	29%
When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.	The Lord of the Rings	29%
The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.	It	24%
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	24%
Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy.	The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	24%
My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.	Great Expectations	18%
Once upon a bye, there was a mischievous boy named ____ _____, who was always getting into trouble, getting off on danger.	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer	18%
Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.	The Trial	18%
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 ...	Catcher in the Rye	12%
It was five o’clock on a winter’s morning in Syria.	Murder on the Orient Express	12%
A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green.	Of Mice and Men	12%
Centuries ago there lived— “A king!” my little readers will say immediately. No, children, you are mistaken. Once upon a time there was a piece of wood.	The Adventures of Pinocchio	12%
A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of communism.	The Communist Manifesto	12%
When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold.	The Hunger Games	12%
The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way towards the lagoon.	The Lord of the Flies	12%
What's it going to be then, eh?	A Clockwork Orange	6%
You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of [another answer on this quiz]; but that ain't no matter.	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	6%
Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow...	Anne of Green Gables	6%
"Where's Papa going with that ax?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.	Charlotte's Web	6%
A told B and B told C, I'll meet you at the top of the coconut tree.	Chicka Chicka Boom Boom	6%
On the 24th of February, 1815, the look-out at Notre–Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon, from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples.	Count of Monte Cristo	6%
The called him Moishe the Beadle, as if his entire life he had never had a surname.	Night	6%
All this happened, more or less.	Slaughterhouse-Five	6%
The sun did not shine, it was too wet to play, so we sat in the house all that cold, cold wet day.	The Cat in the Hat	6%
Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.	The Giving Tree	6%
We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.	The Handmaid's Tale	6%
It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest scratched himsel yawned, and spread out his paws.	The Jungle Book	6%
I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975.	The Kite Runner	6%
Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal.	The Little Prince	6%
One Christmas Eve, many years ago, I lay quietly in my bed.	The Polar Express	6%
In the light of the moon, a little egg lay on a leaf.	The Very Hungry Caterpillar	6%
It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.	The Yellow Wallpaper	6%
The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another his mother called him...	Where the Wild Things Are	6%
The year of grace 1866 was made memorable by a marvelous event which doubtless still lingers in men's minds.	Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea	0%

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