ISAAC ASIMOV’S SUPER QUIZ

Take this Super Quiz to a PhD. Score one point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, two points on the Graduate Level and three points on the PhD Level.

SUBJECT: ROMANTIC LINES FROM NOVELS

Identify the person represented by the underlined pronoun. The title is provided. (e.g., The Great Gatsby: “At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower.”

Answer: Daisy)

FRESHMAN LEVEL

1. Gone With the Wind: “You should be kissed, and often.” 2. Wuthering Heights: “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

3. Pride and Prejudice: “You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”

GRADUATE LEVEL

4. Great Expectations: “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness.”

5. Persuasion: “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.” 6. Jane Eyre: “Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own.”

PHD LEVEL

7. Brokeback Mountain: “I wish I knew how to quit you.” 8. The Time Traveler’s Wife: “I won’t ever leave you, even though you’re always leaving me.”

9. Lady Chatterley’s Lover: “It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.”

ANSWERS FOR MON, MAY 29:

1. Adept, taped. 2. Aimed, media. 3. Right, girth. 4. Direct, credit. 5. Perish, reship. 6. Rashes, shares. 7. Blasted, baldest. 8. Observe, verbose. 9. Decrees, recedes.

SCORING:

18 points — congratulations, doctor; 15 to 17 points — honours graduate; 10 to 14 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 4 to 9 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 3 points — enrol in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you?