Question 1
Which novel opens with the words "Call me Ishmael"?
- Moby-Dick
- Robinson Crusoe
- The Old Man and the Sea
- Treasure Island
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Moby-Dick
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Book Quotes trivia quiz
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What the Book Quotes questions cover
- Famous Quotes
- Opening Lines
- Dystopia
- Gothic Romance
- Harlem Renaissance
- Dystopian Fiction
- Edwardian Fiction
- Gothic Horror
- Lost Generation
- Modernism
- Modernist Poetry
- Morrison
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Question 2
Which novel begins, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"?
- Great Expectations
- A Tale of Two Cities
- David Copperfield
- Oliver Twist
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A Tale of Two Cities
Question 3
Which classic begins with the line "Happy families are all alike"?
- War and Peace
- Jane Eyre
- Anna Karenina
- Madame Bovary
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Anna Karenina
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