First and Last Lines in Literature

1. Which Charles Dickens novel begins with the line "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"?

• Oliver Twist
• A Tale of Two Cities
• The Pickwick Papers
• David Copperfield

2. "Oh, my girls, however long you may live, I never can wish you a greater happiness than this" is the final line of what 1868 novel?

• Wuthering Heights
• Little House on the Prairie
• Jane Eyre
• Little Women

3. "Call me Ishmael" starts the classic novel "_______ Dick".

4. Which Jane Austen novel begins "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife"?

• Persuasion
• Emma
• Sense and Sensibility
• Pride and Prejudice

5. What 1925 novel ends with the line "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past"?

• All Quiet on the Western Front
• The Sun Also Rises
• A Room of One's Own
• The Great Gatsby