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Quiz about Orson Scott Cards First Lines

Orson Scott Card's First Lines Quiz

Orson Scott Card is an author of mostly science fiction and fantasy. I will give you the opening line of a novel by Orson Scott Card and you identify which novel it's from. This might be hard.

A multiple-choice quiz by kristina71. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
kristina71

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5 mins

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Multiple Choice

Quiz #
274,672

Updated
Dec 03 21

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Question 1 of 10

1. "Some people called it 'the time of the undoing'; some, wishing to be more positive, spoke of it as 'the replenishing' or 'the restoring' or even 'the resurrection' of the Earth."
Alternate timelines are a big part of the plot of this novel. Hint

Saints

The Folk of the Fringe

Pastwatch : The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

The Memory of Earth

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Question 2 of 10

2. "'I'm ten years old, my whole life you've called me Vanya'"
Ivan Smetski discovers a hidden clearing in this novel. Hint

Ender's Game

Enchantment

Hot Sleep

A Planet Called Treason

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Question 3 of 10

3. The older version of this novel begins, "I've endured having four arms, an extra nose, and two hearts pumping away before the surgeon took me under his knife to cut away the excess." Hint

A Planet Called Treason

Lost Boys

The Worthing Saga

Lovelock

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Question 4 of 10

4. This fantasy novel begins, "O, Palicrovol, with death and vengeance in your eyes, I write to you because over the centuries there are tales you have forgotten, and tales you never knew." Hint

The Worthing Saga

Seventh Son

Hart's Hope

Xenocide

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Question 5 of 10

5. "Dr. Calhoun Bellamy made it a point to stay away from his property while the crew was tearing down the old Varley house."
What horror novel begins with this line? Hint

Homebody

Ender's Game

Treasure Box

Speaker for the Dead

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Question 6 of 10

6. "'I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.'"
This is the first line of Card's most well known novel. Hint

Ender's Game

The Worthing Saga

Ender's Shadow

Speaker for the Dead

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Question 7 of 10

7. This sequel to another novel begins, "Not many flatboats were getting down the Hio these days, not with pioneers aboard, anyway, not with families and furniture and seed and a few shoats to start a pig herd." Hint

Red Prophet

Prentice Alvin

Heartfire

The Folk of the Fringe

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Question 8 of 10

8. "Today one of the brothers asked me : Is it a terrible prison, not to be able to move from the one place where you're standing?"
Two alien species are having a nonverbal conversation as this novel opens. Hint

Speaker for the Dead

Xenocide

Songmaster

Hot Sleep

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Question 9 of 10

9. Witchcraft is a big part of the novel that starts with the line, "Quentin Fears never told his parents the last thing his sister Lizzy said to him before they pulled the plug on her and let her die." Hint

Lost Boys

Treasure Box

Homebody

Flux

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Question 10 of 10

10. "Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who arose from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts but brothers, not rivals but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence."
This is the first line of Card's second Hugo award winning novel. Hint

Shadow of the Giant

Children of the Mind

Enchantment

Speaker for the Dead

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. "Some people called it 'the time of the undoing'; some, wishing to be more positive, spoke of it as 'the replenishing' or 'the restoring' or even 'the resurrection' of the Earth." Alternate timelines are a big part of the plot of this novel.

Answer: Pastwatch : The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

The Earth is dying, despite the best efforts of humanity to repair the damage they've done. The best hope for the future lies with a group of people who observe the past and Christopher Columbus is the key.

2. "'I'm ten years old, my whole life you've called me Vanya'" Ivan Smetski discovers a hidden clearing in this novel.

Answer: Enchantment

When Ivan is ten years old his family leaves Russia for the United States but before they do Ivan discovers a beautiful woman lying in the center of a leaf covered clearing. He is haunted by the memory until he goes back to Russia as an adult and awakens Sleeping Beauty.

3. The older version of this novel begins, "I've endured having four arms, an extra nose, and two hearts pumping away before the surgeon took me under his knife to cut away the excess."

Answer: A Planet Called Treason

"A Planet Called Treason" was published in 1979 and tells the story of Lanik Mueller a "radical regenerative" who travels across his home planet Treason where generations ago a group of scientists were stranded for the crime they named their planet after. Each scientist formed his own nation and they each used their scientific skills to change the people living there.

In 1988, Card revised "A Planet Called Treason" and renamed it "Treason". The opening line of "Treason" is : "I was the last to know what was happening to me."

4. This fantasy novel begins, "O, Palicrovol, with death and vengeance in your eyes, I write to you because over the centuries there are tales you have forgotten, and tales you never knew."

Answer: Hart's Hope

"Hart's Hope" is a tale of the revenge that Queen Beauty takes on Palicrovol the King after he kills her father and humiliates her. The Hart has a son and sends him to undo Queen Beauty and restore the world to the way it should be.

5. "Dr. Calhoun Bellamy made it a point to stay away from his property while the crew was tearing down the old Varley house." What horror novel begins with this line?

Answer: Homebody

"Homebody" is the story of Don Lark who purchases old homes to fix them up. When he buys the Bellamy House he gets much more than he expected.

6. "'I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.'" This is the first line of Card's most well known novel.

Answer: Ender's Game

"Ender's Game" is Orson Scott Card's classic novel which won both the Hugo and Nebula awards when it was published in 1985.

Answer: Red Prophet

"Red Prophet" is the second book in "The Tales of Alvin Maker". Alvin and his brother are kidnapped by Ta-Kumsaw and his brother the Prophet. This is an alternate history of America where magic really works.

8. "Today one of the brothers asked me : Is it a terrible prison, not to be able to move from the one place where you're standing?" Two alien species are having a nonverbal conversation as this novel opens.

Answer: Xenocide

"Xenocide" is the third book in the Ender series. On the planet Lusitania, the Piggies are only the second sentient species ever discovered. Humanity has already committed xenocide once when they destroyed the Buggers. Now, in their fear, they might do it again.

Answer: Treasure Box

Quentin is a recluse who now lives on the millions he made as a software creator. He meets Madelaine who seems like his dream woman, but she has a secret.

10. "Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who arose from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts but brothers, not rivals but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence." This is the first line of Card's second Hugo award winning novel.

Answer: Speaker for the Dead

Orson Scott Card was the first author to win the Hugo and Nebula awards in two consecutive years with "Ender's Game" and it's sequel "Speaker for the Dead". In "Speaker for the Dead" the reader is introduced to the Piggies, the second sentient species that Humanity has encountered. We also learn that though it has been 3000 years since Ender destroyed the Buggers, Ender is still alive and a young man.

Source: Author kristina71

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