Our last Literary Quiz asked for the name of the authors of these books with animal titles. Here are the answers.
- Kangaroo D H Lawrence
- White Tiger Aravind Adiga
- Cat’s Eye Margaret Atwood
- The Leopard Giuseppe Tomasi
- The Goose Girl Shannon Hale
- The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hamment
- The Silence of the Lambs Thomas Harris
- The Whale Rider Witi Ihimaera
- To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
- The Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough.
Today’s Quiz is a very different one. Can you match the first lines of these well-known novels with the names of the novels? Answers next week.
| I sent one boy to the gas chamber in Huntsville | Beloved |
| ‘Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents’ grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. | Trainspotting |
| Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much | 1984 |
| Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. | No Country for Old Men |
| All children except one grow up | A Tale of Two Cities |
| It was the best of times; it was the worst of times | The Go-Between |
| It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen | Peter Pan |
| The sweat wis lashing oofay Sick Boy; he wis trembling | Rebecca |
| 124 was spiteful. Full of Baby’s venom | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone |
| The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there | Little Women |