| Hint | Explanation | Answer | % Correct |
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| “Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.” | Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf | 84%
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| “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | 71%
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| “… the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart.“ | The Story of My Life | Helen Keller | 66%
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| “Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure.” | The Stranger | Albert Camus | 62%
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| “This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper” | “The Hollow Men” | T. S. Eliot | 62%
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| “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” | Lady Windermere’s Fan | Oscar Wilde | 53%
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| “. . . this is how to make a good medicine for a cold; this is how to make a good medicine to throw away a child before it even becomes a child; this is how to catch a fish; this is how to throw back a fish you don’t like, and that way something bad won’t fall on you; this is how to bully a man; this is how a man bullies you; this is how to love a man; and if this doesn’t work there are other ways, and if they don’t work don’t feel too bad about giving up; this is how to spit up in the air if you feel like it, and this is how to move quick so that it doesn’t fall on you; this is how to make ends meet; always squeeze bread to make sure it’s fresh; but what if the baker won’t let me feel the bread?; you mean to say that after all you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won’t let near the bread?” | “Girl” | Jamaica Kincaid | 49%
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| “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” | Dune | Frank Herbert | 44%
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| “A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others.” | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | L. Frank Baum | 34%
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| “I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold” | “This Is Just To Say” | William Carlos Williams | 34%
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