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Where Did They Get That Title?

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Where Did They Get That Title game quiz
"Many famous works of literature take their titles from a specific line in the text. I'll give you a quote from the book with a blank: by filling in the blank, you'll have named the work. Some multiple choice, some fill in the blank."

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  



1. Fill in the blank with the name of the book from which the quote is taken:

"The wind came back with triple fury, and put out the light for the last time. They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against crude walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but _____________"
    Answer: (Five Words)


2. Fill in the blank with the name of the book from which the quote is taken:

"At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished that he, too, had a wound, ______________"
    A Raisin in the Sun
    The Red Badge of Courage
    A Farewell to Arms
    A Separate Peace


3. Fill in the blank with the name of the book from which the quote is taken:

"He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: _______________. He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come."
    Death of a Salesman
    As I Lay Dying
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
    All Quiet on the Western Front


4. Fill in the blank with the name of the book from which the quote is taken:

"_________, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him
not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much."
    A Passage to India
    The Awakening
    Things Fall Apart
    Cry, the Beloved Country


5. Fill in the blank with the name of the book from which the quote is taken:

"I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff-I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be _____________ and all."
    Answer: (Five Words, including "The")


6. Fill in the blank with the name of the book from which the quote is taken:

"They told me to take_________, and transfer to one called Cemeteries, and ride six blocks and get off at- Elysian Fields!"
    The Crucible
    A Streetcar Named Desire
    The Prince
    A Passage to India


7. Fill in the blank with the name of the book from which the quote is taken. This quote is actually in the epigraph of the novel in which it appears:

"Turning and turning in the widening gyre/The falcon cannot hear the falconer/______; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world."
    As I Lay Dying
    Our Town
    Things Fall Apart
    Great Expectations


8. Fill in the blank with the name of the book from which the quote is taken:

"'Remember it's a sin ___________'. That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it."
    Answer: (Four Words)


9. Fill in the blank with the name of the book from which the quote is taken:

'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of ________________?' Then I read a malenky bit out loud in a sort of very high type preaching goloss: 'The attempt to impose upon a man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my swordpen-'"
    Answer: (Three Words, including "A")


10. Fill in the blank with the name of the book from which the quote is taken:

"It was this liberation we had torn from the gray encroachments of 1943, the escape we had concocted, this afternoon of momentary, illusory, special and ___________"
    Little Women
    A Separate Peace
    Hard Times
    The Sound and the Fury


11. Fill in the blank with the name of the book from which the quote is taken:

"Gorged, they alighted by runnels of sweat and drank. They tickled under his nostrils and played leapfrog on his thighs. They were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, ____________ hung on his stick and grinned."
    Doctor Faustus
    Native Son
    The Stranger
    The Lord of the Flies


12. Fill in the blank with the name of the book from which the quote is taken:

"The brown current ran swiftly out of the _____________, bearing us down towards the sea with twice the speed of our upward progress; and Kurtz's life was running swiftly, too, ebbing, ebbing out of his heart into the sea of inexorable time... I saw the time approaching when I would be left alone of the party of 'unsound method.'"
    Answer: (Three Words)


13. Fill in the blank with the name of the book from which the quote is taken:

"John also laughed, but for another reason-laughed for pure joy. "O __________,' he repeated. 'O ________ that has such people in it. Let's start at once.'
    Brave New World
    Our Town
    The Jungle
    The Republic


14. Fill in the blank with the name of the book from which the quote is taken:

"Well, us talk and talk about God, but I'm still adrift. Trying to chase that old white man out of my head. I been so busy thinking bout him I never truly notice nothing God make. Not a blade of corn (how it do that?) not __________(where it come from?)..."
    Song of Solomon
    The Good Earth
    The Sound and the Fury
    The Color Purple


15.
Finally, a quote that might be as famous as the book in which it is taken from: Name the novel!

"Man's ego is _______ of human progress."
    The Glass Menagerie
    The Fountainhead
    The Prince
    The Awakening


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Compiled Jun 19 13