| Hint | Explanation | Answer | % Correct |
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| “It was many and many a year ago,   In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know   By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with no other thought   Than to love and be loved by me.” | “Annabel Lee” | Edgar Allan Poe | 72%
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| “We need never be ashamed of our tears.” | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | 44%
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| “She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. ‘Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country’s flag,’ she said.” | “Barbara Frietchie” | John Greenleaf Whittier | 40%
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| "It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane." | Valis | Philip K. Dick | 28%
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| “Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.” | Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption | Stephen King | 28%
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| “It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.” | The Time Machine | H. G. Wells | 20%
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| "It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it." | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | 20%
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| “No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.” | The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 16%
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| "The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves." | In a Free State | V. S. Naipaul | 12%
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| "No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying." | Revolutionary Road | Richard Yates | 8%
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