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Quiz about Famous Last Words
Quiz about Famous Last Words

The Ultimate Famous Last Words Quiz | Literary Terms & Quotes


This quiz will test your knowledge of the last lines of some famous books. Most of the books are either American or British. I give you the last sentence, you tell me the correct title.

A multiple-choice quiz by killeen01. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
killeen01
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
37,241
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Difficult
Avg Score
5 / 10
Plays
1064
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Question 1 of 10
1. 'There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air.' Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. 'She's never found peace since she left his arms, and never will again till she's as he is now!' Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. 'I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.' Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. 'April 27. Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.' Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. 'Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.' Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. 'The sun is but a morning star.' Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. 'CHICAGO WILL BE OURS!' Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. 'I shall still get angry with my coachman Ivan, I shall still argue and express my thoughts inopportunely; there will still be a wall between the holy of holies of my soul and other people, even my wife, and I shall blame her for my own fears and shall regret it; I shall still be unable to understand with my reason why I am praying, and I shall continue to pray--but my life, my whole life, independently of anything that may happen to me, every moment of it, is no longer meaningless as it was before, but has an incontestable meaning of goodness, with which I have the power to invest it.' Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. 'The broken flower drooped over Ben's fist and his eyes were empty and blue and serene again as cornice and facade flowed smoothly once more from left to right, post and tree, window and doorway and signboard each in its ordered place. Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. 'After all, tomorrow is another day.'

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. 'There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air.'

Answer: The Awakening

Kate Chopin's controversial feminist novel, first published in the 1890s.
2. 'She's never found peace since she left his arms, and never will again till she's as he is now!'

Answer: Jude the Obscure

By Thomas Hardy. Possibly one of the most depressing books ever written in English. The quote refers to Sue Bridehead, Jude's commonlaw wife.
3. 'I lingered round them, under that benign {sky;} watched the moths fluttering among the heath and {hare-bells;} listened to the soft wind breathing through the {grass;} and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.'

Answer: Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte's great romantic novel, published in 1847, a year before she died.
4. 'April 27. Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.'

Answer: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By James Joyce, one of the great Irish writers. Main character Stephen Dedalus shows up again in Ulysses.
5. 'Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.'

Answer: The Catcher in the Rye

An amazing book by J.D. Salinger. Legend has it that it inspired John Hinckley to shoot Ronald Reagan.
6. 'The sun is but a morning star.'

Answer: Walden

Henry David Thoreau's account of his year in the woods. The other three answers were all books by Ernest Hemingway.
7. 'CHICAGO WILL BE OURS!'

Answer: The Jungle

Upton Sinclair's novel about labor organizing in the meat packing plants of Chicago in the early twentieth century.
8. 'I shall still get angry with my coachman Ivan, I shall still argue and express my thoughts {inopportunely;} there will still be a wall between the holy of holies of my soul and other people, even my wife, and I shall blame her for my own fears and shall regret {it;} I shall still be unable to understand with my reason why I am praying, and I shall continue to pray--but my life, my whole life, independently of anything that may happen to me, every moment of it, is no longer meaningless as it was before, but has an incontestable meaning of goodness, with which I have the power to invest it.'

Answer: Anna Karenina

By Leo Tolstoy, and a very good book.
9. 'The broken flower drooped over Ben's fist and his eyes were empty and blue and serene again as cornice and facade flowed smoothly once more from left to right, post and tree, window and doorway and signboard each in its ordered place.

Answer: The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner's modern novel. Faulkner pioneered stream-of-consciousness in The Sound and the Fury.
10. 'After all, tomorrow is another day.'

Answer: Gone With the Wind

By Margaret Mitchell, and worth reading even if you don't like the movie.
Source: Author killeen01

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