Classic Literature: Do You Know Your First Lines?

Hello fellow readers! We all know there are many readers, but few true literary geniuses. For a little fun, join me in a "Classic Literature: Do You Know Your First Lines" quiz.

If you would like, when you are done, head on over to Litline.org, and click on "ABR." From there you can link to the list of 100 First Lines. Have fun and good luck. Please post your results for all to see.

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1. Call me Ishmael.
Beloved
Moby-Dick
Gravity's Rainbow
Lolita
Finnegans Wake
Invisible Man
2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Anna Karenina
Moby-Dick
Pride and Prejudice
1984
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Trial
3. A screaming comes across the sky.
Pride and Prejudice
Lolita
1984
Invisible Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Gravity's Rainbow
4. Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buend�?�­a was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
A Tale of Two Cities
Gravity's Rainbow
Moby-Dick
Hundred Years of Solitude
Miss Lonelyhearts
David Copperfield
5. Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.
Moby-Dick
Gravity's Rainbow
Lolita
Finnegans Wake
A Tale of Two Cities
City of Glass
6. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Finnegans Wake
Anna Karenina
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Invisible Man
Their Eyes Were Watching God
1984
7. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
Lolita
Miss Lonelyhearts
The Good Soldier
The Catcher in the Rye
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
1984
8. 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
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Tale of Two Cities
The Trial
1984
Finnegans Wake
The Crying of Lot 49
9. If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I do
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
City of Glass
Ulysses
The Sound and the Fury
The Catcher in the Rye
Beloved
10. Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo.
The Good Soldier
Waiting
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Stranger
The Crying of Lot 49
Slaughterhouse-Five
11. 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.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Ulysses
Invisible Man
City of Glass
Notes from Underground
The Stranger
12. 124 was spiteful.
Paradise
Slaughter House 5
The Sound and the Fury
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Beloved
Moby-Dick
13. Mother died today.
City of Glass
The Stranger
Waiting
Ethan Frome
Don Quixote
The Sound and the Fury
14. Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
Middlesex
Paradise
Gravity's Rainbow
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Anna Karenina
The Old Man and the Sea
15. All this happened, more or less.
Paradise
Don Quixote
The Stranger
The Old Man and the Sea
Slaughterhouse-Five
One Hundred Years of Solitude

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