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novels by decade - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 29 times
- The average score is 10 of 22
Answer Stats
| Hint | Description | Answer | % Correct |
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| 1930s | The daughter of a plantation owner, hoping one day to win over the man she desires, makes a series of marriages and business decisions before, during, and after the Civil War, including wedding a roguish but wealthy smuggler. | Gone With the Wind | 75%
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| 1870s | An orphan, living with his aunt and half-brother, grows up along the Mississippi River. | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | 75%
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| 1910s | A salesman living with his family wakes up one morning and finds himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect. | The Metamorphosis | 70%
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| 1950s | An aging Cuban fisherman struggles to catch a giant marlin. | The Old Man and the Sea | 70%
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| 1860s | An idealistic former student struggles with guilt and paranoia after murdering an unscrupulous pawnbroker and her sister. | Crime and Punishment | 65%
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| 1840s | After being wrongfully convicted of treason, a young man escapes prison and, with the aid of treasure left to him by a fellow inmate, takes revenge on the men who set him up. | The Count of Monte Cristo | 65%
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| 1960s | After being arrested for killing an old woman, a violent teenager undergoes an experimental process to make him averse to criminal activity. | A Clockwork Orange | 60%
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| 1810s | Three sisters and their widowed mother move from their family estate to a cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience both the joys and tribulations of love. | Sense and Sensibility | 55%
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| 1940s | Not long after his mother's death, a curiously unemotional resident of French Algeria kills an unnamed man in Algiers. | The Stranger | 55%
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| 1980s | A boy born at 12 am on August 15, 1947, discovers that all children born in India between 12 and 1 am on that date—the day of Indian independence—have special, superhuman powers. | Midnight's Children | 45%
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| 1920s | A well-off London woman spends the day preparing for a party she is throwing. | Mrs Dalloway | 40%
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| 1820s | After she and her sister are betrayed on the way to meet their father in the Adirondacks, a woman falls in love with one of the men who saved her—a white man who grew up among the Delaware Indians. | The Last of the Mohicans | 40%
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| 2000s | An unnamed father travels with his young son, attempting to survive in the aftermath of an extinction event. | The Road | 40%
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| 1850s | The estranged son of an noble French family returns to France to save an old friend; there, he is imprisoned for his aristocratic heritage, and must rely on the help of his wife's father, himself a former inmate of the Bastille. | A Tale of Two Cities | 35%
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| 1830s | Various personal narratives, including marriages, death, and education, interact with the historical goings-on of the time in a fictional English town for which the novel is named. | Middlemarch | 35%
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| 1890s | An English cottager discovers that he is descended from Norman nobility and presses his daughter to "claim kin" of a rich widow bearing the ancient family's name. | Tess of the D'Urbervilles | 35%
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| 1900s | A well-born but recently poor woman struggles to find a wealthy husband in New York high society, ruining her reputation and social standing in the process. | The House of Mirth | 35%
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| 1990s | After holding a Dionysian bacchanal in the woods, a closely-knit group of classics students at a New England school decide to kill one of their own. | The Secret History | 35%
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| 2010s | A biologist joins a group of scientists as they explore a mysterious uncanny zone known only as Area X. | Annihilation | 20%
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| 1880s | When a spirited young American woman inherits her late father's fortune, she is invited to England by her wealthy aunt, eventually agreeing to marry the third in a series of suitors, unaware that his proposal is ill-motivated. | The Portrait of a Lady | 20%
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| 1970s | The son of a wealthy Black man in Michigan grows up and gains insight into American racial dynamics as he searches for supposed buried family treasure. | Song of Solomon | 10%
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| 2020s | A man lives alone in the halls of an infinitely large house, slowly putting together his forgotten past and the truth behind his world. | Piranesi | 5%
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