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Quiz about Bookshelf Scramble
Quiz about Bookshelf Scramble

Bookshelf Scramble Trivia Quiz


The following questions give the first lines to books on my shelf. You have to analyze the lines to figure out the name of each book.

A multiple-choice quiz by Potter07. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
Potter07
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
150,857
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
5 / 10
Plays
512
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Question 1 of 10
1. "There is no lake at Camp Green Lake."

What book opens with this line?
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Question 2 of 10
2. "Wham."


What book opens with this line?
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Question 3 of 10
3. "Jack Torrance thought." Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. "Fingers of lightning tore holes in the black skies as an angry cloudburst drenched the surrealistic landscape."


What book opens with this line?
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Question 5 of 10
5. "A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank, and runs deep and green."


What book opens with this line?
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Question 6 of 10
6. "He was born in a house, a pretty ordinary house, right across the river from here in Bridgeport."


What book opens with this line?
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Question 7 of 10
7. "Where's Papa going with that axe?"


What book opens with this line?
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Question 8 of 10
8. "Brian Robeson stared out the window of the small plane to the endless green northern wilderness below."


What book opens with this line?
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Question 9 of 10
9. "Not long ago in a large university town in California, on a street called Orchard Avenue, a strange old man ran a dusty shabby store."


What book opens with this line?
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Question 10 of 10
10. "I knelt in the snow in front of my great-great-great-great grandfather's grave."


What book opens with this line?
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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. "There is no lake at Camp Green Lake." What book opens with this line?

Answer: Holes

Did you know Louis Sachar who wrote the book "Holes", also wrote the script for the movie?
2. "Wham." What book opens with this line?

Answer: Sticks

Joan Bauer won the Newbery Honor award for her book "Hope was Here!"
3. "Jack Torrance thought."

Answer: The Shining

Steven King's house in Maine looks as though it came from a horror story. (It looks haunted).


What book opens with this line?
4. "Fingers of lightning tore holes in the black skies as an angry cloudburst drenched the surrealistic landscape." What book opens with this line?

Answer: Mothman Prophecies

This book is based on a true story. There really was a Mothman, and author John A. Keel writes his account of what happened in "The Mothman Prophecies".
5. "A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank, and runs deep and green." What book opens with this line?

Answer: Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck who wrote this book won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, six years before he died.
6. "He was born in a house, a pretty ordinary house, right across the river from here in Bridgeport." What book opens with this line?

Answer: Maniac Magee

Jerry Spinelli, the author of "Maniac Magee", started writing when he was sixteen.
7. "Where's Papa going with that axe?" What book opens with this line?

Answer: Charlotte's Web

E.B White wrote "Charlotte's Web" and then later "Stuart Little", getting the Newbery Honor award for both books.
8. "Brian Robeson stared out the window of the small plane to the endless green northern wilderness below." What book opens with this line?

Answer: Hatchet

Gary Paulsen, who wrote "Hatchet", did a little research before writing the book. He actually did all the things that Brian Robeson did in the book. (He survived in the wild for a month).
9. "Not long ago in a large university town in California, on a street called Orchard Avenue, a strange old man ran a dusty shabby store." What book opens with this line?

Answer: The Egypt Game

Did you know that "The Eygpt Game", "The Witches of Worm", and "The Headless Cupid" all won the Newbery Honor Medal?
10. "I knelt in the snow in front of my great-great-great-great grandfather's grave." What book opens with this line?

Answer: Backwater

Joan Bauer has written six acclaimed books in a span of four years.
Source: Author Potter07

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