In the Beginning: Famous Opening Lines

In the Beginning: Famous Opening Lines

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Are you an avid reader? Do you think you know your classic literature? Well, test your literary prowess with this opening lines quiz.

  1. 1

    It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

  2. 2

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

  3. 3

    I have just returned from a visit to my landlord--the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

  4. 4

    As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

  5. 5

    Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

  6. 6

    Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

  7. 7

    It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.

  8. 8

    All children, except one, grow up.

  9. 9

    A Tale of Two Cities opens with the words: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," but how does Dickens continue?

  10. 10

    I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up.

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