| Hint | Explanation | Answer | % Correct |
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| “Quoth the Raven ‘Nevermore.’” | “The Raven” | Edgar Allan Poe | 98%
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| “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” | Animal Farm | George Orwell | 96%
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| “The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is . . 42.” | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | 80%
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| “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em.” | Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare | 51%
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| “Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.” | Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut | 43%
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| “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?” | “Harlem” | Langston Hughes | 39%
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| “He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words: ‘Wait and Hope.’” | The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas | 37%
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| “Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor…” | Nobody Knows My Name | James Baldwin | 37%
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| “The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.” | “One Art” | Elizabeth Bishop | 33%
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| “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.” | “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” | Robert Herrick | 18%
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