ANSWERS - Literary Opening Lines QUIZ

Below are the answers to the Opening Lines QUIZ. How did you do?  QUIZ Ratings as follows:

5-7 Correct = GOOD  (Familar with several classics)
8-10 Correct = VERY GOOD (An ardent student of Literature)
10+ Correct = EXCELLENT (Likely a Professor of Literature)

Level I  (Easy):

1. Call me Ishmael. (Moby Dick, Melville)
2. Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. (One Hundred Years Of Soltitude, Marquez)
3. All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. (Anna Karenina, Tolstoy)
4. You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that ain’t no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain)
5. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. (A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens)

Level II  (Medium):

1. Midway on our life's journey, I found myself in dark woods, the right road lost. (Inferno, Dante)
2. As Gregor Samsa awoke from a night of uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. (Metamorphosis, Kafka)
3. Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. (War & Peace, Tolstoy)
4. You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. (If on a winter's night a traveler, Calvino)
5. Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.  (The Trial, Kafka)

Level III  (Difficult):

1. Howard Roark laughed. (The Fountainhead, Rand)
2. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. (Ulysses, Joyce)
3. It was a pleasure to burn. (Fahreheit 451, Bradbury)
4. In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. (Farewell To Arms, Hemingway)
5. Mama died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure. (The Stranger, Camus)