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How Tough is Your Modern Lit Mettle?

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Introduction:
"Think your knowledge of 20th-century classics is up to snuff? To see, simply read the quote I have provided and select the novel from which it was extracted among the possible answers below. Good Luck!"


1. From which classic work was the following quote taken?

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do."
    Native Son
    Of Mice and Men
    To Kill A Mockingbird
    A Raisin in the Sun


2. From which classic work was the following quote taken?

"Maybe that's why my mother cut my tongue. She pushed my tongue up and sliced the frenum. Or maybe she snipped it with a pair of nail scissors. I don't remember her doing it, only her telling me about it, but all during childhood I felt sorry for the baby whose mother waited with scissors or knife in hand for it to cry--and then, when its mouth was wide open like a baby bird's, cut."
    Angela's Ashes
    The Woman Warrior
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    Ceremony


3. From which classic work was the following quote taken?

"Tiger got to hunt,
Bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder, 'why, why, why?'

Tiger got to sleep,
Bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand."
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    Cat's Cradle
    Lord of the Flies
    Brave New World


4. From which classic work was the following quote taken?

"I knew more than she thought I knew about the meaning of religion, the hunger of the human heart for that which is not and can never be, the thirst of the human spirit to conquer and transcend the implacable limitations of human life."
    Invisible Man
    Black Boy
    Black Like Me
    Song of Solomon


5. From which classic work was the following quote taken?

"I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can."
    The Catcher in the Rye
    The Grapes of Wrath
    The Sun Also Rises
    On the Road


6. From which classic work was the following quote taken?

"Vaguely he can recall a sense of calm, of peace, that he had laid claim to on leaving the hospital. There were one or two guiding principles to get him through the day. Some ambitious plans, also, for putting his life in order. But the details have somehow been lost. If there ever were any."
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    Ordinary People
    The Chocolate War
    A Prayer for Owen Meany


7. From which classic work was the following quote taken?

"I kissed her and saw that her eyes were shut. I kissed both her shut eyes. I thought she was probably a little crazy. It was all right if she was. I did not care what I was getting into. This was better than going every evening to the house for officers where the girls climbed all over you and put your cap on backwards as a sign of affection between their trips upstairs with other officers."
    For Whom the Bell Tolls
    A Farewell to Arms
    Things Fall Apart
    The Sound and the Fury


8. From which classic work was the following quote taken?

"I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth, and this is the truth: I haven't cheated my sister or you or anyone else as long as I have lived."
    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
    Tender is the Night
    Gone With the Wind
    A Streetcar Named Desire


9. From which classic work was the following quote taken?

"There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars."
    Mrs. Dalloway
    East of Eden
    The Glass Menagerie
    The Great Gatsby


10. From which classic work was the following quote taken?

"...and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes."
    Dubliners
    Ulysses
    Finnegans Wake
    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man


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