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17.7.16

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 Check Answers

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