Just How Well Read Are You?

1. “3 May, Bistritz. --Left Munich at 8:35 p.m., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late.”

2. “There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.”

3. “All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

4. “Mother died today.”

5. “Then there was the bad weather.”

6. “Though I haven’t ever been on the screen I was brought up in pictures.”

Answers to First Lines

1) “Dracula,” by Bram Stoker

2) “Cry the Beloved Country,” by Alan Paton

3) “Anna Karenina,”by Leo Tolstoy

4) “The Stranger,” by Albert Camus

5) “A Moveable Feast,” by Ernest Hemingway

6) “The Last Tycoon,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald