First line quiz by Chris Redding

Here’s a first line quiz. I will award a bag of chocolate to whomever gets all of them correct. If there is more than one person than I will draw a name from a hat.

1. My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name being Philip, my infant tongue could make both of those names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.

2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

3. When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

4. “What’s it going to be then, eh?”

5. A squat grey building of over thirty four stories.

6. Boys are playing basketball around a telephone pole with a backboard bolted to it.

7. My names was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie.

8. It was a very likely place for disappearances, at least at first glance.

9. She dreamed of sanctuary.

10. The corpse grabbed her arm with cool fingers.

Thanks for playing.

Chris Redding

www.chrisreddingauthor.com

http://chrisredddingauthor.blogspot.com

6 thoughts on “First line quiz by Chris Redding

  1. I’ll Play. Though I don’t know them all.

    1) Great Expectations (It’s the only book I know with a character named Pip)
    2) Pride and Prejudice
    3) To Kill a Mockingbird
    7) The Lovely Bones
    8) Outlander (My all time favorite novel – except I believe it reads “It WASN’T a very likely place…”
    9) Corpse Whisperer

  2. #1 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
    #2 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
    #3 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
    #4 Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
    #5 Brave New World – Ardous Huxley
    – Central London Hatchery
    #6 Rabitt, Run Study Guide – John Updike
    #7 The Lovely Bones – Alice Seabold
    #8 Outlander – Diane Gabalander
    #9 Sanctuary – Nora Roberts
    #10 Corpse Whisperer – Chris Redding
    – Good thing I bought your book at
    the fair last week!!

    Your boss isn’t as dumb as he acts!! I expect a bag of chocolate (sugar free) on my desk when I come back to work next week!!!! :razz:

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