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  Which Southern writer is also known as the "Custodian of the Twilight Zone"? see if you know the answer
Answered: 211 times
Correct: 56 times (12.1%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 155 times (33.5%)
Skipped: 251 times (54.3%)
  Which of these comes first in the opening lines of A Tale of Two Cities? see if you know the answer
Answered: 801 times
Correct: 349 times (35.4%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 452 times (45.8%)
Skipped: 185 times (18.8%)
  Who of the following wrote a play or novel entitled "Dr. Faustus?" see if you know the answer
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Correct: 76 times (25.3%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 177 times (59.0%)
Skipped: 47 times (15.7%)
  Lines from whose works are quoted with particular frequency in the works of Ngaio Marsh? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 139 times (50.5%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 47 times (17.1%)
Skipped: 89 times (32.4%)
  Which book refers to "the unseen good old man"? see if you know the answer
Answered: 532 times
Correct: 176 times (21.4%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 356 times (43.3%)
Skipped: 290 times (35.3%)
  "The Haunted Dolls' House" is a ghost story by whom? see if you know the answer
Answered: 166 times
Correct: 73 times (27.5%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 93 times (35.1%)
Skipped: 99 times (37.4%)
  "The Hanged Man's Bride" is a ghost story by whom? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 44 times (17.4%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 104 times (41.1%)
Skipped: 105 times (41.5%)
  "__________ was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. _________ signed it. And _________'s name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to.

Old _________ was as dead as a door-nail."

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Answered: 630 times
Correct: 359 times (49.6%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 271 times (37.4%)
Skipped: 94 times (13.0%)
What was the first name of Miss Manette in [b:A Tale of Two Cities|1953|A Tale of Two Cities|Charles Dickens|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159226755s/1953.jpg|2956372] by [a:Charles Dickens|239579|Charles Dickens|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1183239979p2/239579.jpg] What was the first name of Miss Manette in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens see if you know the answer
Answered: 2166 times
Correct: 1530 times (47.0%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 636 times (19.5%)
Skipped: 1088 times (33.4%)
"We seek him here, we seek him there, those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven or is he in hell?" Comes from what novel? "We seek him here, we seek him there, those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven or is he in hell?" Comes from what novel? see if you know the answer
Answered: 616 times
Correct: 445 times (60.7%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 171 times (23.3%)
Skipped: 117 times (16.0%)
  In Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, what is the name of the undertaker's employee? see if you know the answer
Answered: 2726 times
Correct: 1249 times (35.6%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 1477 times (42.1%)
Skipped: 784 times (22.3%)
  In A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, by what outward action does Dr. Manette give evidence that he has reverted to his old, dark mental state?

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Answered: 1747 times
Correct: 652 times (26.7%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 1095 times (44.9%)
Skipped: 691 times (28.3%)
  Who wrote A Damsel in Distress? see if you know the answer
Answered: 319 times
Correct: 250 times (39.7%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 69 times (11.0%)
Skipped: 310 times (49.3%)
  About which 19th-century novelist did Dorothy Parker write this little poem: "Who call him spurious and shoddy / Shall do it o'er my lifeless body. / I heartily invite such birds / To come outside and say those words!" see if you know the answer
Answered: 145 times
Correct: 66 times (31.6%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 79 times (37.8%)
Skipped: 64 times (30.6%)
  True or false: Charles Dickens was well educated and attended Cambridge University.

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Answered: 904 times
Correct: 677 times (62.1%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 227 times (20.8%)
Skipped: 186 times (17.1%)
  True or false: Charles Dickens was a believer in and practioner of mesmerism, or hypnosis.

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Answered: 133 times
Correct: 119 times (70.4%)
Difficulty: easy
Incorrect: 14 times (8.3%)
Skipped: 36 times (21.3%)
  Which private press is generally considered as having published the definitive edition of Dickens's oeuvre? see if you know the answer
Answered: 88 times
Correct: 25 times (15.1%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 63 times (38.0%)
Skipped: 78 times (47.0%)
  Which is not by Charles Dickens?

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Correct: 457 times (73.5%)
Difficulty: easy
Incorrect: 58 times (9.3%)
Skipped: 107 times (17.2%)
  The novelist Tobias Oates in Peter Carey's novel Jack Maggs is based on the biography of which real-life novelist?
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Answered: 110 times
Correct: 56 times (27.5%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 54 times (26.5%)
Skipped: 94 times (46.1%)
Modern mystery fiction: Although the true origin of this form of storytelling remains unknown, the first piece of mystery fiction is generally recognized as Modern mystery fiction: Although the true origin of this form of storytelling remains unknown, the first piece of mystery fiction is generally recognized as see if you know the answer
Answered: 230 times
Correct: 183 times (66.5%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 47 times (17.1%)
Skipped: 45 times (16.4%)
  The play Jabberwock is based on the adolescent memories of whom? see if you know the answer
Answered: 177 times
Correct: 32 times (14.2%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 145 times (64.2%)
Skipped: 49 times (21.7%)
  Which Dicken's novel begins with the lines:
London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Implacable November weather.Charles Dickens 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 109 times
Correct: 64 times (38.6%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 45 times (27.1%)
Skipped: 57 times (34.3%)
  Which of the below Dickens characters is generally called by his/her proper name?

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Correct: 27 times (5.8%)
Difficulty: really really difficult
Incorrect: 292 times (63.1%)
Skipped: 144 times (31.1%)
  What was Charles Dickens' first published novel? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 624 times (42.7%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 451 times (30.9%)
Skipped: 386 times (26.4%)
  Which book begins chapter one I am born? see if you know the answer
Answered: 109 times
Correct: 98 times (81.0%)
Difficulty: easy
Incorrect: 11 times (9.1%)
Skipped: 12 times (9.9%)
  In which novel by Charles Dickens can you find Bella Wilfer? see if you know the answer
Answered: 91 times
Correct: 43 times (25.4%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 48 times (28.4%)
Skipped: 78 times (46.2%)
  In which Charles Dickens novel can you find Ada Clare? Charles Dickens see if you know the answer
Answered: 103 times
Correct: 58 times (33.0%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 45 times (25.6%)
Skipped: 73 times (41.5%)
  Which book is not written by Charles Dickens? see if you know the answer
Answered: 335 times
Correct: 319 times (94.1%)
Difficulty: very easy
Incorrect: 16 times (4.7%)
Skipped: 4 times (1.2%)
  Which late 19th century writer is responsible for writing the short stories: "The Ransom of Red Chief" and "The Last Leaf"? Nathaniel HawthorneO. HenryCharles Dickens see if you know the answer
Answered: 115 times
Correct: 92 times (61.3%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 23 times (15.3%)
Skipped: 35 times (23.3%)
  "Thirty years ago, Marseilles lay burning in the sun, one day." This is the first line in what Charles Dickens novel? see if you know the answer
Answered: 763 times
Correct: 360 times (30.8%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 403 times (34.4%)
Skipped: 407 times (34.8%)

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