Opening Lines of Classic Literature quiz

[muriel_volestrangler]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6906540.stm

I got 4 out of 10 - ie barely above random chance. :(

[Mist]

1. I got 4 out of 10 too, and I think I'm well-read (but I've never read Tolstoy or

Hardy).

[KansDem]

2. I got "4 out of 10" as well!

Hmmm...is a pattern emerging?

[cyberswede]

3. 6/10 for me...

...but I guessed on a few. :)

[terrya]

3 of 10

Christ, I'm an ignoramus. :cry:

[Igel]

9. Don't feel bad.

I got 3 out of 10. And if I hadn't gotten the Tolstoi question, it would have been 2 out of 10. Oh, and Dickens.

Russian literature I know backwards, though; just taught a survey class on it. Andreev? Babel'? Sumarokov? Baratynsky? I'm your man.

But most English-language literature? Joyce? Austen? Forget it.

Gotta go read some Borges. If it's not Russian literature (or Czech, or Polish) then it's Spanish.

[flamingyouth]

12. Me too.

I don't like a lot of those books, personally.

[yardwork]

4. 6/10 - not very good.

[fudge stripe cookays]

6. Then...

we are equally not very good. But we did better than some! :hug: Daniel Deronda screwed me up. How about you?

[yardwork]

11. Yep - I missed that one - never read it.

I also got the Tolstoy ones mixed up.

[fudge stripe cookays]

13. I got the Tolstoy one.

Yay me! Having read a background of Anna Karenina. I forget the other one that messed me up.

[wildhorses]

5. 5/10

meh...wavered the wrong way on a couplex(

[Bitwit1234]

7. I don't like classic literature but I got 4 out of 10

I read over 6 to 7 books a week. I really do. If I get one I like I stay up all night. When I was younger I used to take them in the kitchen and still read while I was fixing dinner. My husband used to have a fit and couldn't understand how I could read and cook. I also used to read books while watching TV. I can't concentrate like that now tho.

[unpossibles]

8. 8/10

but I guess on a couple of them.

[Warpy]

10. I did dismally and I'd read them all

so I guess the first lines weren't what made those novels memorable.

[JitterbugPerfume]

14. I got five out of ten

embarrassing:spank:

[LWolf]

15. 7/10. n/t

[greatauntoftriplets]

16. 5 out of 10

n/t

[Thirtieschild]

17. 4 out of 10, and some of the four were lucky guesses

The only one I was sure about was Sense and Sensibility. Some of them I'd never read, and some so long ago that memory no longer served.

[mitchum]

18. 8 out of 10, but I'm a lit geek

[raccoon]

19. I got 5 out of 10, and I consider myself well-read.

Several times I just guessed.

[Patiod]

20. 7/10 --- lots of good guesses

which is probably why I did so well on the SATs!