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First Lines of Classic Novels

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Asks students to identify the openings of commonly-read novels.

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1
"It was a pleasure to burn."
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughter-house Five
Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea
Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
2
"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
Robert Frost's "Death of the Hired Man"
3
"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day."
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
4
"All this happened, more or less."
Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea
Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn
Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughter-house Five
5
"124 was spiteful."
Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
Toni Morrison's Beloved
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and the Damned
6
"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself."
Toni Morrison's Beloved
James Joyce's Ulysses
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
7
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man . . . must be in want of a wife."
Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace
George Eliot's Middlemarch