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5. Call me Ishmael. –Herman Melville Answer: _________________________________________________ 6. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. –Jane Austen Answer: _________________________________________________ 7. It was love at first sight. –Joseph Heller Answer: _________________________________________________ 8. What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? –Erich Segal Answer: _________________________________________________ 9. Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Pivet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn’t hold with such nonsense. –J.K. Rowling Answer: _________________________________________________ 10. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way. –Charles Dickens Answer: _________________________________________________ 11. It was Wang Lung’s marriage day. –Pearl Buck Answer: _________________________________________________ 12. “Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents,” grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. –Louisa May Alcott Answer: _________________________________________________ 13. To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth. –John Steinbeck Answer: _________________________________________________
Celebrating Seven Years Reading ’Riggers is having a birthday party and you’re invited! By Gerry DeBenedetti
SAVE THE DATE: October 6, 2023 at 10 a.m.
➳ Yes, Reading ’Riggers is 7 years old, and we are celebrating with birthday cake, a game and discussing good reads. The celebratory game is printed below so everyone can participate. Answers will be provided at the party on October 6. If you are unable to attend, submit your answers to the OCC Front Desk and provide your contact information. Your quiz will be corrected and returned. No Googling—this is an electronic device- free book club. Some beginnings are so famously effective that readers can look at them and name the literary works they lead off. Identify the work of fiction started by each passage. 1. Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Auntie Em, who was the farmer’s wife. –L. Frank Baum Answer: _________________________________________________ 2. All children, except one, grow up. –James M. Barrie Answer: _________________________________________________ 3. You don’t know about me without you have read a book called The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter. –Mark Twain Answer: _________________________________________________ 4. Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, ‘and what is the use of a book,’ thought Alice ‘without pictures or conversation?’ –Lewis Carroll Answer: _________________________________________________
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