"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man . . . must be in want of a wife."

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

"You don’t know about me, you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer..."

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

"All this happened, more or less."

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughter-house Five

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Rudey- First Lines of Classic Novels

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

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1
A throng of bearded men, in sad–coloured garments and grey steeple–crowned hats...
Of Mice and Men
The Great Gatsby
Huck Finn
The Scarlett Letter
2
"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day."
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
3
"124 was spiteful."
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
Toni Morrison's Beloved
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and the Damned
Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
4
"It was a pleasure to burn."
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughter-house Five
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis
Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea
5
"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."
J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
Robert Frost's "Death of the Hired Man"
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
6
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man . . . must be in want of a wife."
Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
George Eliot's Middlemarch
7
They’re out there.
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
The Great Escape
The Fault in our Stars
Huck Finn
8
"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself."
Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
Toni Morrison's Beloved
James Joyce's Ulysses
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
9
"You don’t know about me, you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer..."
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
The Scarlet Letter
Of Mice and Men
10
"All this happened, more or less."
Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis
Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughter-house Five
Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea

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