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The "Quiz"
Test Your Book Smarts
The Strand Bookstore has included a literary matching quiz in its job application form since the 1970s. Here are some quizzes from years past. Can you match the authors and titles? Beware of trick questions. JULY 15, 2016 RELATED ARTICLE
George Etheredge for The New York Times
Quiz 1
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Animal Farm
To the Lighthouse
A House for Mr. Biswas
Invisible Man
A Confederacy of Dunces
Dead Souls
Waiting for Godot
Gulliver’s Travels
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Quiz 2
White Noise
The Second Sex
Metamorphoses
Kindred
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Handmaid’s Tale
A People’s History of the United States
Naked Lunch
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Tipping Point
Quiz 3
The Histories
Brave New World
The Poisonwood Bible
A Wrinkle in Time
Wise Blood
Infinite Jest
White Teeth
What We Talk About
When We Talk About Love
The Sound and the Fury
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Quiz 4
Native Son
Of Human Bondage
The Cantos
Silas Marner
Poetics
Labyrinths
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
The Master and Margarita
The Golden Notebook
The Trial
Quiz 5
The Stones of Venice
Don Quixote
Death of a Salesman
Being & Nothingness
Song of Solomon
The Sea Around Us
The Iliad
The Wings of the Dove
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Divine Comedy
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