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1. Fill in the blank with the name of the book from which the quote is taken:
"The wind came back with triple fury, and put out the light for the last time. They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against crude walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but _____________"
2. Fill in the blank with the name of the book from which the quote is taken:
"At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished that he, too, had a wound, ______________"
3. Fill in the blank with the name of the book from which the quote is taken:
"He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: _______________. He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come."
4. Fill in the blank with the name of the book from which the quote is taken:
"_________, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him
not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much."
5. Fill in the blank with the name of the book from which the quote is taken:
"I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff-I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be _____________ and all."
6. Fill in the blank with the name of the book from which the quote is taken:
"They told me to take_________, and transfer to one called Cemeteries, and ride six blocks and get off at- Elysian Fields!"
7. Fill in the blank with the name of the book from which the quote is taken. This quote is actually in the epigraph of the novel in which it appears:
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre/The falcon cannot hear the falconer/______; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world."
8. Fill in the blank with the name of the book from which the quote is taken:
"'Remember it's a sin ___________'. That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it."
9. Fill in the blank with the name of the book from which the quote is taken:
'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of ________________?' Then I read a malenky bit out loud in a sort of very high type preaching goloss: 'The attempt to impose upon a man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my swordpen-'"
10. Fill in the blank with the name of the book from which the quote is taken:
"It was this liberation we had torn from the gray encroachments of 1943, the escape we had concocted, this afternoon of momentary, illusory, special and ___________"
11. Fill in the blank with the name of the book from which the quote is taken:
"Gorged, they alighted by runnels of sweat and drank. They tickled under his nostrils and played leapfrog on his thighs. They were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, ____________ hung on his stick and grinned."
12. Fill in the blank with the name of the book from which the quote is taken:
"The brown current ran swiftly out of the _____________, bearing us down towards the sea with twice the speed of our upward progress; and Kurtz's life was running swiftly, too, ebbing, ebbing out of his heart into the sea of inexorable time... I saw the time approaching when I would be left alone of the party of 'unsound method.'"
13. Fill in the blank with the name of the book from which the quote is taken:
"John also laughed, but for another reason-laughed for pure joy. "O __________,' he repeated. 'O ________ that has such people in it. Let's start at once.'
14. Fill in the blank with the name of the book from which the quote is taken:
"Well, us talk and talk about God, but I'm still adrift. Trying to chase that old white man out of my head. I been so busy thinking bout him I never truly notice nothing God make. Not a blade of corn (how it do that?) not __________(where it come from?)..."
15. Finally, a quote that might be as famous as the book in which it is taken from: Name the novel!
"Man's ego is _______ of human progress."
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