![]() Highlight or double-click the space after Answer: to see if you were right, and share your score in the comments if you dare. Some should be pretty obvious, but I also think a few will be a challenge-so if you think you’re equal to it, step right up and test your skills! (I also just used my judgement I’ve been doing this for a while.) I limited myself to one passage per distinct work, though some authors are quoted more than once. To guide my selections, I looked at what seemed like an endless stream of quote pages and lists, including Lit Hub’s own list of the most iconic poems in the English language, keeping track of the popularity of various quotes. ![]() So to test our collective memories (and libraries), and to break up the pandemic tedium with a little bit of competition, and also because it’s fun, I’ve picked out 100 of the most referenced, quoted, reused, and generally well-known passages of literature, from single memorable lines of dialogue to longer sections of prose or verse, and turned them into a quiz. ![]() And it’s one thing to know that Shakespeare wrote something (as the sages say: when in doubt, it’s from Shakespeare), but quite another to remember the play it came from. Especially considering most of us read a number of the classics in our teenage years, when we were only half paying attention anyway. Congratulations you! Still, it’s one thing to read a great book, but quite another to retain it. If you’re here, you’re probably pretty well read. ![]()
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