Edgar Allan Poe
Herman Melville
Toni Morrison
Miguel de Cervantes
F. Scott Fitzgerald
100

"I became _________, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

a.) Happy   b.) Red   c.) Insane

c.) Insane

100

“It is better to fail in ___________ than to succeed in imitation.”

a.) originality     b.) lying      c.) copying

a.) originality 

100

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must ________ it.”

a.) write     b.) throw       c.) seek

a.) write

100

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much ________, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”

a.) eating       b.) working         c.) reading

c.) reading

100

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare ________.”

a.) blankly       b.) hungrily          c.) happily

a.) blankly

200

"Once upon a midnight ________, while I pondered weak and weary."

a.) cold    b.) dreary    c.) unpleasant

b.) dreary

200

“It is not down on any map; ______ places never are.”

a.) false    b.) true     c.) green

b.) true

200

“Definitions belong to the definers, not the _________.”

a.) tired     b.) sought      c.) defined

c.) defined

200

“The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above _________, as oil floats on water.”

a.) milk        b.) lies          c.) grass

b.) lies

200

“________ me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”

a.) give        b.) tell         c.) show

c.) show

300

"All that we see or seem is but a _______ within a dream.”

a.) dream      b.) ghost      c.) sunset

a.) dream

300

“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a ________ Christian.”

a.) good    b.) drunk     c.) angry

b.) drunk

300

“Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I ________ in it.”

a.) died        b.) rose      c.) failed

b.) rose

300

“The proof of the pudding is the _________.”

a.) eating      b.) spilling         c.) sending

a.) eating

300

“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the ___________ of losing it again.”

a.) pleasure      b.) sorrow        c.) feeling

a.) pleasure

400

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some ___________ in the proportion.”

a.) strangeness    b.) ugliness     c.) sugar

a.) strangeness

400

“I try all things, I ________ what I can.”

a.) achieve      b.) do       c.) eat

a.) achieve

400

“Like any artist without an art form, she became __________.”

a.) sullen       b.) dangerous       c.) happy

b.) dangerous

400

“There is no book so bad...that it does not have something ________ in it.”

a.) weird       b.) silly        c.) good

c.) good

400

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any _________.”

a.) fun        b.) privacy          c.) alcohol

b.) privacy

500

“Believe nothing you ________, and only one half that you see.”

a.) taste     b.) know      c.) hear

c.) hear

500

“Ignorance is the _________ of fear.”

a.) pet       b.) cousin       c.) parent

c.) parent

500

“You are your _________ thing”

a.) best        b.) only         c.) saddest

a.) best

500

“___________ is the best sauce in the world.”

a.) salsa        b.) hunger           c.) love

b.) hunger

500

“Let us learn to show our ___________ for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”

a.) friendship          b.) hatred         c.) amusement

a.) friendship