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Thu Jul-19-07 10:44 AM
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6906540.stmI got 4 out of 10 - ie barely above random chance. :(
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Thu Jul-19-07 10:48 AM
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1. I got 4 out of 10 too, and I think I'm well-read (but I've never read Tolstoy or |
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Thu Jul-19-07 10:50 AM
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2. I got "4 out of 10" as well! |
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Hmmm...is a pattern emerging?
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Thu Jul-19-07 10:52 AM
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...but I guessed on a few. :)
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Thu Jul-19-07 10:56 AM
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Christ, I'm an ignoramus. :cry:
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Thu Jul-19-07 11:50 AM
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I got 3 out of 10. And if I hadn't gotten the Tolstoi question, it would have been 2 out of 10. Oh, and Dickens.
Russian literature I know backwards, though; just taught a survey class on it. Andreev? Babel'? Sumarokov? Baratynsky? I'm your man.
But most English-language literature? Joyce? Austen? Forget it.
Gotta go read some Borges. If it's not Russian literature (or Czech, or Polish) then it's Spanish.
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Thu Jul-19-07 03:01 PM
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I don't like a lot of those books, personally.
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Thu Jul-19-07 10:56 AM
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Thu Jul-19-07 11:03 AM
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we are equally not very good. But we did better than some! :hug: Daniel Deronda screwed me up. How about you?
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Thu Jul-19-07 02:57 PM
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11. Yep - I missed that one - never read it. |
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I also got the Tolstoy ones mixed up.
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Thu Jul-19-07 03:58 PM
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13. I got the Tolstoy one. |
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Yay me! Having read a background of Anna Karenina. I forget the other one that messed me up.
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Thu Jul-19-07 10:57 AM
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meh...wavered the wrong way on a couplex(
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Thu Jul-19-07 11:04 AM
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7. I don't like classic literature but I got 4 out of 10 |
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I read over 6 to 7 books a week. I really do. If I get one I like I stay up all night. When I was younger I used to take them in the kitchen and still read while I was fixing dinner. My husband used to have a fit and couldn't understand how I could read and cook. I also used to read books while watching TV. I can't concentrate like that now tho.
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Thu Jul-19-07 11:42 AM
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but I guess on a couple of them.
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Thu Jul-19-07 11:58 AM
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10. I did dismally and I'd read them all |
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so I guess the first lines weren't what made those novels memorable.
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Fri Jul-20-07 03:51 PM
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14. I got five out of ten |
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Fri Jul-20-07 03:56 PM
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Sat Jul-21-07 09:57 AM
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17. 4 out of 10, and some of the four were lucky guesses |
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The only one I was sure about was Sense and Sensibility. Some of them I'd never read, and some so long ago that memory no longer served.
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Thu Jul-26-07 08:45 AM
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18. 8 out of 10, but I'm a lit geek |
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Fri Jul-27-07 09:46 AM
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19. I got 5 out of 10, and I consider myself well-read. |
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Several times I just guessed.
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Mon Sep-03-07 10:09 AM
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20. 7/10 --- lots of good guesses |
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which is probably why I did so well on the SATs!
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