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Literary Quizzes

!New! Drew's Great Quotes. Who Wrote The Words?
–	Who Wrote These Great Words? "Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five"
–	Who Wrote These Great Words? "money is like a reputation for ability- more easily made than kept".
–	Who Wrote These Great Words? We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over."
–	" Who Wrote These Great Words? Mend your speech (a little) least it dull your fortunes."
–	Who Wrote These Great Words? "A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature."
–	Who Wrote These Great Words? " He's a most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of not one good quality "
–	Who Wrote These Great Words? “Lets meet as little as we can”
–	Who Wrote These Great Words? “Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man”
–	Who Wrote These Great Words? ". . . . In this country it is found requisite, now and then, to put an admiral to death, in order to encourage the others to fight."
–	Who Wrote These Great Words? "A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain."

American Authors - Match The Name To The Title.
–	Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
–	Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
–	Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
–	Mark Twain (1835-1910)
–	Jack London (1876-1916)
–	Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
–	John Smith (1579-1631)
–	Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
–	Lew Wallace (1827-1905)
–	Washington Irving (17830 - 1859)

Edgar Allan Poe Quiz
–	Poe wrote the first:
–	Where was Poe born?
–	Both his parents belonged to what profession?
–	Poe moved to what city after his mother died?
–	Poe married Virginia Clemm, who was she?
–	What disease claimed the lives of Poe’s mother then his wife?
–	What job made Poe many enemies?
–	What cost Poe many jobs?
–	Which famous poem repeats “Nevermore”?
–	Which insanity tale has a beating sound repeated?

Even More Shakespearian Slights, Taunts & Insults
–	Need a great barb, taunt or insult? Try Shakespeare. He’s the best. It's fun. Which Play Is This Quote From? " in his sleep he does little harm "
–	Need a great barb, taunt or insult? Try Shakespeare. He’s the best. It's fun. Which Play Is This Quote From? " Drunkenness is his best virtue "
–	Need a great barb, taunt or insult? Try Shakespeare. He’s the best. It's fun. Which Play Is This Quote From? " He has everything that an honest man should not have "
–	Need a great barb, taunt or insult? Try Shakespeare. He’s the best. It's fun. Which Play Is This Quote From? " you speak unskilfully "
–	Need a great barb, taunt or insult? Try Shakespeare. He’s the best. It's fun. Which Play Is This Quote From? " his intellect is not replenished "
–	Need a great barb, taunt or insult? Try Shakespeare. He’s the best. It's fun. Which Play Is This Quote From? " though her father be very rich, any man is so very a fool to be married to hell "
–	Need a great barb, taunt or insult? Try Shakespeare. He’s the best. It's fun. Which Play Is This Quote From? " He hath out-villain'd villainy "
–	Need a great barb, taunt or insult? Try Shakespeare. He’s the best. It's fun. Which Play Is This Quote From? " if you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt."
–	Need a great barb, taunt or insult? Try Shakespeare. He’s the best. It's fun. Which Play Is This Quote From? " you were born to do me shame "
–	Need a great barb, taunt or insult? Try Shakespeare. He’s the best. It's fun. Which Play Is This Quote From? " 'Hell is empty, And all the devils are here.'"

Fable folly. Name that Fable Quiz.
–	Much wants more and loses all
–	Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.
–	“But may I ask who is going to bell the cat?"
–	One swallow does not make summer.
–	Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.
–	Boasters brag most when they cannot be detected.
–	Evil wishes, like fowls, come home to roost.
–	Deeds, not words.
–	Union is strength.
–	Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.

Famous First Lines - By Author 2
–	HALF a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death
–	"Please, sir, is this Plumfield?" asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which the omnibus left him
–	Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice "without pictures or conversation?"
–	At a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to remember, there lived a little while ago one of those gentlemen who are wont to keep a lance in the rack, an old buckler, a lean horse and a swift greyhound.
–	I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull
–	My father's family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.
–	No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own
–	THE year 1866 was signalized by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumors which agitated the maritime population. . .
–	Chains may subdue the feeble spirit, but thee, Tell, of the iron heart! they could not tame
–	One day it occurred to me that it had been many years since the world had been afforded the spectacle of a man adventurous enough to undertake a journey

Famous First Lines - By Title
–	"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents,"
–	It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
–	1801-- I have just returned from a visit to my landlord -- the solitary neighbor that I shall be troubled with.
–	All children, except one, grow up.
–	Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife.
–	Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
–	The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home.
–	Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.
–	Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.
–	He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull.

Famous First Lines - By Title 2
–	3 May. Bistritz. - Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but the train was an hour late.
–	When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only.
–	It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.
–	Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth - a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, perfectly good-natured, but absolutely centered upon his own silly self.
–	Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene
–	A spectre is haunting Europe- the spectre of Communism.
–	TELL ME, O MUSE, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy
–	Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.
–	There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
–	Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Famous First Lines - By Title 3
–	Buck did not read the newspapers or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.
–	THE day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow.
–	IN 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D__. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of D__ since 1806. Although it in no manner concerns, even in the remotest degree, what we have to relate, it may not be useless, were it only for the sake of exactness in all things, to notice here the reports and gossip which had arisen on his account from the time of his
–	It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips.
–	Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst.
–	A throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes.
–	It is a curious thing that at my age, fifty-five last birthday, I should find myself taking up a pen to try and write a history.
–	On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the town of Meung, in which the author of The Romance of the Rose was born, appeared to be in a perfect state of revolution as if the Hugenots had just made a second Rochelle of it.
–	It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet.
–	Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence. . ..

Famous First Lines – By Author
–	I MET a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert.
–	"Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes."
–	O, TO be in England Now that April's there
–	The Time Traveler (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.
–	ALREADY THE tempest had continued six days; on the seventh its fury seemed still increasing; and the morning dawned upon us without a prospect of hope, for we had wandered so far from the right track . ..
–	Call me Ishmael.
–	You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.
–	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.
–	Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable.
–	I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father's house.

Famous First Lines of Poetry Quiz
–	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote, “By the Shore of Gitche Gumee,/by the shining Big-Sea Water” as the first line in which poem?
–	Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote, “Half a league, half a league” as the first line in which poem?
–	Robert Browning wrote, “Oh, to be in England/Now that April’s there,” as the first line in which poem?
–	William Cullen Bryant wrote, “Chains may subdue the feeble spirit, but thee,/Tell, of the iron heart! They could not tame!” as the first line in which poem?
–	Ezra Pound wrote, “Go, my songs, to the lonely and the unsatisfied” as the first line in which poem?
–	John Keats wrote, “Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,/Thou foster-child of silence and slow time” as the first line in which poem?
–	Rudard Kipling wrote, “You may talk o’gin and beer” as the first line in which poem?
–	Oscar Wilde wrote, “To drift with every passion till my soul/Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play” as the first line in which poem?
–	Robert Frost wrote, “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood” as the first line in which poem?
–	William Wordsworth wrote, “Five years have past; five summers, with the length/Of five long winters! and again I hear/These waters” as the first line in which poem?

General Knowledge Literature Quiz
–	Who banished Ppets in "The Reputlic"?
–	The Leaves of Grass contains poetry from which Poet?
–	In "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," what animal is killed?
–	Where did Sherlock Holms live?
–	Fyodor Dostoyevsky's famous novel, "Crime and Punishment", is set in what country?
–	Fill in the missing words. It was the best of times, ..
–	Fill in the missing words, "Two roads diverge in a wood and I _________"
–	What Book contains this thought? "A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent."
–	What was Hans Christian Anderson's nationality?
–	Who wrote, "I wandered Lonely as a Cloud?"

Is It Shakespeare Or The Bible Quiz? 1
–	Many of our everyday sayings come either from Shakespeare or the Bible. Which is this? "For blessed are the peacemakers on earth"
–	Many of our everyday sayings come either from Shakespeare or the Bible. Which is this? "A house divided"
–	Many of our everyday sayings come either from Shakespeare or the Bible. Which is this? "In my mind's eye"
–	Many of our everyday sayings come either from Shakespeare or the Bible. Which is this? "All men are liars"
–	Many of our everyday sayings come either from Shakespeare or the Bible. Which is this? "It was Greek to me"
–	Many of our everyday sayings come either from Shakespeare or the Bible. Which is this? "Labour of love"
–	Many of our everyday sayings come either from Shakespeare or the Bible. Which is this? "A little more than kin, and less than kind"
–	Many of our everyday sayings come either from Shakespeare or the Bible. Which is this? "More in sorrow than in anger"
–	Many of our everyday sayings come either from Shakespeare or the Bible. Which is this? "Out of the mouth of babes"
–	Many of our everyday sayings come either from Shakespeare or the Bible. Which is this? "Pearls before swine"

Is It Shakespeare Or The Bible Quiz? 2
–	Many of our everyday sayings come either from Shakespeare or the Bible. Which is this? "Physician, heal thyself"
–	Many of our everyday sayings come either from Shakespeare or the Bible. Which is this? "Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting" Now - "Weighed in the balance and found wanting"
–	Many of our everyday sayings come either from Shakespeare or the Bible. Which is this? "What a piece of work is man"
–	Many of our everyday sayings come either from Shakespeare or the Bible. Which is this? "Wars and rumours of wars"
–	Many of our everyday sayings come either from Shakespeare or the Bible. Which is this? "Vanity of vanities"
–	Many of our everyday sayings come either from Shakespeare or the Bible. Which is this? "Twinkling of an eye"
–	Many of our everyday sayings come either from Shakespeare or the Bible. Which is this? "Too much of a good thing"
–	Many of our everyday sayings come either from Shakespeare or the Bible. Which is this? "Unto Caesar"
–	Many of our everyday sayings come either from Shakespeare or the Bible. Which is this? "To gild refined gold, to paint the lily" Now - "Gild the lily"
–	Many of our everyday sayings come either from Shakespeare or the Bible. Which is this? "His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay". Now - "Feet of clay"

Love Poems. Love Quotes. Love Quiz.
–	Pick The Missing Line.Some love too little, __________
–	Pick The Missing Line.Earth's the right place for love: ___________ .
–	Pick The Missing Line.I looked here; I looked there; __________
–	Pick The Missing Line.COME live with me and be my Love, __________ .
–	Pick The Missing Line.HOW do I love thee? __________ .
–	Pick The Missing Line.that my love were in my arms, __________ .
–	Pick The Missing Line.O MY Luve's like a red, red rose, __________ .
–	Pick The Missing Line.Ah, what a world of love was at her feet! __________ .
–	Pick The Missing Line.All-Gracious! grant, to those that bear, A mother's charge, the strength and light, _______ ,In ways of Love, and Truth, and Right.
–	Pick The Missing Line.IF thou must love me, let it be for nought. __________ .

More Shakespearian Slights, Taunts & Insults.
–	Need a great barb, taunt or insult? Try Shakespeare. He’s the best. It's fun. Which Play Is This Quote From? " there's small choice in rotten apples "
–	Need a great barb, taunt or insult? Try Shakespeare. He’s the best. It's fun. Which Play Is This Quote From? "I say the gentleman had drunk himself out of his five sentences"
–	Need a great barb, taunt or insult? Try Shakespeare. He’s the best. It's fun. Which Play Is This Quote From? " Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade "
–	Need a great barb, taunt or insult? Try Shakespeare. He’s the best. It's fun. Which Play Is This Quote From? "Come, you are a tedious fool"
–	Need a great barb, taunt or insult? Try Shakespeare. He’s the best. It's fun. Which Play Is This Quote From? " False face must hide what the false heart doth know "
–	Need a great barb, taunt or insult? Try Shakespeare. He’s the best. It's fun. Which Play Is This Quote From? " I took thee for thy better "
–	Need a great barb, taunt or insult? Try Shakespeare. He’s the best. It's fun. Which Play Is This Quote From? " Show your sheep-biting face, and be hang'd an hour! "
–	Need a great barb, taunt or insult? Try Shakespeare. He’s the best. It's fun. Which Play Is This Quote From? " Vile worm, thou wast o'erlook'd even in thy birth "
–	Need a great barb, taunt or insult? Try Shakespeare. He’s the best. It's fun. Which Play Is This Quote From? " Methink'st thou art a general offence, and every man should beat thee "
–	Need a great barb, taunt or insult? Try Shakespeare. He’s the best. It's fun. Which Play Is This Quote From? " You are not worth another word "

Name that Author Quiz
–	Annabel Lee
–	Anne of Green Gables
–	Around the World in Eighty Days
–	At the Earth’s Core
–	Swiss Family Robinson
–	The Phantom of the Opera
–	Treasure Island
–	Prince and the Pauper
–	Pinocchio
–	Pygmalion

Name That Author Quiz 2
–	People of the Abyss
–	The Pathfinder
–	Pilgrim’s Progress
–	The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
–	Mysterious Island
–	Heidi
–	Pride and Prejudice
–	Way of all Flesh
–	And Did Those Feet
–	Invictus

Name The Sayings - Aesop’s Fables Quiz
–	Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
–	It is best to prepare for the days of necessity.
–	Slow and steady wins the race.
–	Never trust a friend who deserts you in a pinch
–	Do not count your chickens before they are hatched
–	Persuasion is better than force.
–	Better beans and bacon in peace, than cakes and ale in fear.
–	Little friends may prove great friends.
–	Necessity is the mother of invention.
–	Look before you leap.

Robert Frost First Line
–	Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel both
–	The city had withdrawn into itselfAnd left at last the country to the country;
–	All out of doors looked darkly in at himThrough the thin frost, almost in separate stars
–	She stood against the kitchen sink, and looked Over the sink out through a dusty window
–	"When I was just as far as I could walk From here to-day,
–	As I went down the hill along the wall There was a gate I had leaned at for the view
–	"Oh, let's go up the hill and scare ourselves, As reckless as the best of them to-night,
–	Love has earth to which she clings With hills and circling arms about-
–	You come to fetch me from my work to-night When supper's on the table, and we'll see
–	Once on the kind of day called "weather breeder," When the heat slowly hazes and the sun

Shakespeare Quotation Quiz
–	Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.
–	There's no time for a man to recover his hair that grows bald by nature.
–	For blessed are the peacemakers on earth.
–	Talkers are no good doers.
–	Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden
–	A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
–	In thy face I see The map of honour, truth, and loyalty!
–	Off with his head!
–	The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
–	My crown is in my heart, not on my head;

Shakespeare Quotation Quiz 2
–	Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind:
–	Love comforteth like sunshine after rain
–	Now is the winter of our discontent
–	No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity
–	There is something in the wind
–	Ill deeds is doubled with an evil word.
–	Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
–	Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
–	These words are razors to my wounded heart.
–	I'll not budge an inch

Shakespeare Quotation Quiz 3
–	There's small choice in rotten apples.
–	sink or swim
–	I know a trick worth two
–	it would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest for ever
–	The better part of valour is discretion
–	Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying
–	The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose
–	it is a wise father that knows his own child
–	But love is blind, and lovers cannot see
–	If you prick us, do we not bleed?

Shakespeare Quotation Quiz 4
–	Old fashions please me best
–	For such an injury would vex a very saint
–	This is a way to kill a wife with kindness
–	The naked truth of it is: I have no shirt
–	Mad world! mad kings! mad composition!
–	Bell, book, and candle, shall not drive me back
–	as quiet as a lamb
–	Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!
–	The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation
–	I count myself in nothing else so happy As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends

Shakespeare Quotation Quiz 5
–	Lord, what fools these mortals be
–	A pair of star-cross'd lovers
–	A plague o' both your houses!
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