Super Quiz: Literary Quotations

1. "Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old ----------."

2. "I couldn't live where there were no trees -- something vital in me would ----------."

3. "Let's face it: Our lives are miserable, laborious and --------."

4. "You used to be much more ... 'muchier.' You've lost your ------------."

5. "To prolong doubt was to prolong --------."

6. "It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of ------------."

7. "No one has ever become poor by ----------."

8. "Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my ------------."

9. "She knew she could help him best by being silent and by being --------."

ANSWERS:

1. Sinner (A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens)

2. Starve (Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery)

3. Short (Animal Farm, by George Orwell)

4. Muchness (Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll)

5. Hope (Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte)

6. Happiness (The Adventures of Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie)

7. Giving (Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank)

8. Opinion (Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

9. Near (The Pearl, by John Steinbeck)