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1. "When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind, Paul Newman and a ride home."
Which book has this classic first line, based on two rival gangs in the 1960s?
2. What English classic's first sentence is "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife"?
3. This classic novel begins with "You better not never tell nobody but God."
What book is this?
4. This book has the opening line of "To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth."
Which famous classic is this?
5. This American masterpiece commences with the opening line "Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte."
Which novel is this?
6. This beloved classic begins with Aunt Polly shouting for her nephew. He doesn't answer. Which novel is this?
7. Although this book was written by a British author, it is as loved in America as in so many other countries. Its opening line: "It was nearing midnight and the Prime Minister was sitting alone in his office, reading a long memo that was slipping through his brain without leaving the slightest trace of meaning behind." What book is this?
8. The first chapter of this true classic is titled "The Old Sea-dog at the Admiral Benbow". Opening line: Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about ______________, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island..."
It continues on and on, but what novel begins with this extremely long opening line?
9. This beloved thriller begins with "Renowned curator Jacques Sauniere staggered through the vaulted archway of the museum's Grand Gallery."
What book is this?
10. Finally, what novel begins with "This is the saddest story I have ever heard."?
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