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1. You are in the winter of your years, and you plan to enjoy a quiet evening alone with a book-the problem is that you don't know which book to read. As you look through the selections in your bookshelf, you see the dusty jackets of books you read in high school, and as you pass over one, you recall how the main character kills a man "because of the sun". Which book is this?
2. You decide you'd like to read something else. On the cover of the next book you see a colossal cetacean and you recall a story of a captain driven by a maddening desire for revenge. What novel are you holding?
3. Opting instead to look for a shorter novel, you put back the previous book and pick up another. Set in the fictional town of Starkfield, this novel tells the tale of a man who falls in love with his wife's cousin and their disastrous sled ride. Which book are you holding now?
4. Deciding that you want something a bit more exciting, you replace the book and remove this novel from the shelf. You recall your high school teacher explaining that the main character was a nihilist who saw himself as one who was above the law, and this characteristic was what led him to murder a miserly pawnbroker with an axe. Which book are you recalling?
5. At this point you know what you want to read. The only problem is that you can't find it anywhere. While searching, you recall that the main character is a romantic idealist who spends years (not to mention lots of money) trying to woo his sweetheart, Daisy, only to end up dead. Which book/play did you hope to read?
6. As you're scrounging around looking for the aforementioned novel, you spot a nicely-preserved First Edition copy of a novel you read your freshman year about a lawyer who lives in Maycomb, Alabama who dares to defend a black man in a racist court. What book do you have now?
7. The phone rings, shattering the silence and making you jump up, bang your head on an overhanging shelf, and knock down a book. As you go to get the phone you catch sight of the book you knocked down and you recall the famous last line: "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known." Which masterpiece is now lying on the floor?
8. The phone call was from your wife, and she said that she was going to buy the flowers herself for the dinner party you were going to have the next day. This reminded you of another novel you read in high school. Which one?
9. As you continue your search for the perfect read, your eyes pass over one of Shakespeare's plays. This tragedy was one of Shakespeare's few plays where the title character was a villain. This particular villain becomes infatuated with a prophecy and murders a king.
10. As your search comes to end, you are beginning to despair that you'll ever find a book that suits you. Then you see it. This book, published in 1949, tells the story of a man living in an oppressive society, and how (partly due to the effects of the infamous Room 101) he is not only forced to accept it, but love it. What is this chilling novel that you have decided to read?
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