Time to get your thinking cap on! Which novel opens with the line, 'Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm...'?
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Fabulous!
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Which novel begins with the line, 'We slept in what had once been the gymnasium...'?
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You're one class act!
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What novel has this opening line? "It was a pleasure to burn."
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Which book starts with the words, '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...'?
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What novel has this opening line? "It was a dark and stormy night..."
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What novel has this opening line? "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
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What novel has this opening line? "Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war because of the air-raids."
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What novel starts with this line, 'Call me Ishmael'?
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What novel has this opening line? "It was a bright and sunny morning when she walked into my office..."
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What novel has this opening line? "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
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What novel has this opening line? "I write this sitting in the kitchen sink."
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What novel has this opening line? "I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974."
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You've conquered half of the quiz! Which novel opens with the line, 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife'?
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What novel has this opening line? "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
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What novel has this opening line? "It was the day my grandmother exploded."
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What novel has this opening line? "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."
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What novel has this opening line? "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."
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Wonderful!
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What novel has this opening line? "The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon."
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What novel has this opening line? "Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested."
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Which book starts with the words, 'It was a bright, cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen'?
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What novel has this opening line? "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
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You're getting very close to the end! What novel has this opening line? "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born."
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You're almost at the end! What novel has this opening line? "All this happened, more or less."
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Super!
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And finally, what novel has this opening line? "In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."
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