I once wrote a broadside complaining that “one could throw a hundred Bibles in your typical Sunday church service without hitting a single person who has ever read the Harvard Classics....”  Think you’re smarter than the average pew-sitter? Here’s a little quiz to see if you can match famous opening lines from 10 numbers on the Harvard Shelf of Fiction with the correct title and author. 

But before you get started, here’s a little video to get you in the mood.

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