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quiz - first lines of classic novels. how do you fare?

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hatwoman · 19/07/2007 16:24

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5/10 for me. pretty poor. but I think it's quite tough.

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multitasker · 19/07/2007 23:17

4/10 and I thought I was well read...

FlameDelacour · 19/07/2007 23:16

6/10... have read very few of them

MrsJohnCusack · 19/07/2007 23:09

9/10
couple of guesses though

jessem · 19/07/2007 23:04

bloody hell !!! only 2 correct and i've read a fair few of these books!!! oh the shame well i'll just have to face it. I'm thick with a capital T.

Liska · 19/07/2007 22:58

Expat - agree with you re George Eliot. Got a few chapters into Middlemarch and was losing the will to live so had to stop.

Love Henry James though - he's a dude

iota · 19/07/2007 22:56

I thought Call me Ishmael should have been in ther

southeastastra · 19/07/2007 22:54

i got 6/10 on first go and i have one o level hahah

iota · 19/07/2007 22:52

I got 5 , but then I did my English degree a looooooong time ago

southeastastra · 19/07/2007 22:52

i do like those bbc quizzes though

expatinscotland · 19/07/2007 22:49

I hate Dickens, Austen, Tolstoy and Joyce.

I thought 'Wuthering Heights' was a crock, although Charlotte's 'Jane Eyre' is one of my all-time favs.

Haven't been able to get through a single George Eliot and I find Henry James a boring nonce as well .

Liska · 19/07/2007 22:47

I am deeply ashamed. Only got my Masters in English Lit a year ago, but I could only manage 6/10. Blame it on sleep deprivation

MadEyeMacdog · 19/07/2007 22:41

3 out of 10, but I've had a bottle of wine and made some lucky guesses

expatinscotland · 19/07/2007 22:38

3/10

mummytosteven · 19/07/2007 22:38

6/10. ah well. don't kniow how I could have forgotten the moo cow line!

southeastastra · 19/07/2007 22:35

10/10 (she lied)

RosaLuxembourg · 19/07/2007 22:35

7/10 - scraped into the cleverclogs category by the skin of me teeth.

butterbeer · 19/07/2007 19:13

9/10

With a couple of lucky guesses, admittedly. And I haven't actually read many of the books listed at all

IdrisTheDragon · 19/07/2007 19:06

4 out of 10

Lio · 19/07/2007 18:16

7/10 - v tricky

pollypeachum · 19/07/2007 18:13

It makes up for a pop quiz along exactly the same lines that we got on our first day at university - to check whether we'd read the prescribed reading list or not. I hadn't and scored the lowest score ever. A gamma delta, whatever that is!!!!

beansprout · 19/07/2007 18:09

Ooh, 8 out of 10, get me!!

pollypeachum · 19/07/2007 18:09

8/10 [smug]

lucky guesses played their part though!

filchthemildmanneredjanitor · 19/07/2007 18:08

5/10

tortoiseSHELL · 19/07/2007 18:08

3/10

brandnewhelsy · 19/07/2007 18:07