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First Lines Literary Quiz

Test your knowledge of classic literature with our engaging First Lines Quiz! Dive into the opening lines of famous novels and see if you can identify the authors and titles correctly.

Challenge yourself and see how well you know these literary gems:

Identify well-known quotes from literature
Explore a variety of genres
Perfect for book lovers and literature enthusiasts!

11 Questions3 MinutesCreated by ReadingRaven42

�It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen

Emma: Jane Austen.

Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

Villette: Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: Charlotte Bronte

Shirley: Charlotte Bronte

Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannesthere had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.

Psmith: PG Wodehouse

Right Ho Jeeves: PG wodehouse

The Luck of the Bodkins: PG Wodehouse

I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.

I Feel Bad About My Neck: Nora Ephron

Watermelon: Marian Keyes

I Captured the Castle: Dodie Smith

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

The Princess Bride: William Golding

The Go-Between: LP Hartley

Back When We Were Grownups: Anne Tyler

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb and he almost deserved it.

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: C.S. Lewis

The Horse and His Boy: CS Lewis

The Silver Chair: CS Lewis

If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle: Avi

The Teacher’s Funeral: Richard Peck

A Series of Unfortunate Events: Lemony Snicket

The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way to the lagoon.

Five Children and It: E Nesbit

Lord of the Flies: William Golding

The Wizard of Earthsea: Ursula Le Guin

Ho Chi Minh City in the summer. Sweltering by anyone's standards.

Noughts and Crosses: Malorie Blackman

Night Sky Dragons: Mal Peet

Artemis Fowl: Eoin Colfer

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