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12/10/24 Grif.Net – Great Literature Quiz

12/10/24 Grif.Net – Great Literature Quiz

[Challenging quiz, offering 15 more “lines” from fa=
mous works of literature that you can answer in 1, 2 or (for a perfect win)=
BOTH ways – giving the correct AUTHOR and/or correct BOOK.  Did=
I mention “tough”? A couple of softballs, but there is no &#82=
20;present under the tree” for most of us in today’s quiz.]

 

1. &#8220=
;There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.&#8221=
;

Author: ________________  Book: _____=
___________

 

2. “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human bei=
ng with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.”

Author: ________________  Book: ______________=
__

 

3. =
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”=

Author: ________________  Book: ________________

 

4. &#8=
220;I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea t=
hat courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you&#=
8217;re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through=
no matter what.”

Author: ____________=
____  Book: ________________

&nbsp=
;

5. “‘Why did you do all this for me=
?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done a=
nything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend. That in itself is a=
tremendous thing.’

Author: __________=
______  Book: ________________

&nb=
sp;

6. “And so we beat on, boats against th=
e current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

Author: ________________  Book: ________________

 

7. “Whate=
ver our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

Author: ________________  Book: ________________=

 

8. “=
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”

Author: ________________  Book: _________=
_______

 

9. “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in=
its own way.”

Author: ______________=
__  Book: ________________

 

10. “It is nothing to die; it is dreadful n=
ot to live.”

Author: ________________&=
nbsp; Book: ________________

 

11. “Who controls the past controls the future=
=2E Who controls the present controls the past.”

Author: ________________  Book: ________________=

 

12. “Why, =
sometimes, I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before brea=
kfast.”

Author: ________________ =
Book: ________________

 

13. “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget t=
o live.”

Author: ________________&nbsp=
; Book: ________________

 

14. “There are some things you learn best in calm,=
and some in storm.”

Author: _________=
_______  Book: ________________

&n=
bsp;

15. “The world breaks everyone, and af=
terward, many are strong at the broken places.”

=

Author: ________________  Book: ________________

 

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D=
r Bob Griffin

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"Jesus Knows Me, This I Love!&quo=
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