Famous Literary Quotes Trivia Questions
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A mix of easy, medium and hard — questions run from warm-up to expert, so there's a real challenge at every level. Think you know the answers? Play to find out.
Boats beating against the current, borne ceaselessly into the past, provides the poetic final image of this American classic.
Difficulty: Easy- Of Mice and Men
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The Great Gatsby
- East of Eden
In my beginning is my end echoes through this Eliot poem that meditates on time and the English countryside.
Difficulty: Medium- Four Quartets
- Ash Wednesday
- The Hollow Men
- The Waste Land
Existence precedes essence summarizes the philosophical position that humans create their own meaning through choices.
Difficulty: Hard- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Albert Camus
- Martin Heidegger
- Simone de Beauvoir
Tolstoy opens this Russian saga about a doomed love affair by noting that all happy families resemble each other.
Difficulty: Easy- The Brothers Karamazov
- Anna Karenina
- War and Peace
- Crime and Punishment
You must not tell anyone, my mother said, what I am about to tell you, opens this memoir about Chinese-American identity.
Difficulty: Medium- The Woman Warrior
- Wild Swans
- Becoming
- The Joy Luck Club
HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME shouts a pub bartender amid fragmented conversations in this modernist poem's second section.
Difficulty: Hard- Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
- The Waste Land
- The Bridge
- The Cantos
A three-word refrain about fatalistic acceptance appears over a hundred times in this time-traveling anti-war novel.
Difficulty: Easy- Slaughterhouse-Five
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Catch-22
- The Things They Carried
Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure, opens this existentialist novel about an indifferent man facing execution.
Difficulty: Medium- The Myth of Sisyphus
- The Plague
- The Stranger
- The Fall
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