| Hint | Explanation | Answer | % Correct |
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| “To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them. To die: to sleep…” | Hamlet | William Shakespeare | 100%
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| “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.” | “Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream” | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 70%
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| “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” | Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | 64%
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| “Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.” | “The Second Coming” | William Butler Yeats | 64%
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| “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | J. K. Rowling | 51%
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| “There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” | The Hobbit | J. R. R. Tolkien | 41%
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| “She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.” | Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston | 31%
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| “The past is never dead. In fact, it’s not even past.” | Requiem for a Nun | William Faulkner | 28%
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| “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” | Little Women | Louisa May Alcott | 23%
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| “It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live.” | Les Misérables | Victor Hugo | 20%
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