Sunday, January 21, 2007

Yet another quiz I failed

Check out the latest brief but difficult literary quiz at the Times (London).

The second and third questions:

2 IDENTIFY, PLEASE
H.G. Wells: “Leviathan retrieving pebbles.”
Conrad: “The historian of fine consciences.”
Mrs Henry Adams: “He chaws more than he bites off.”

3 WHO WROTE?
“I used to think all poets were Byronic —/ Mad, bad and dangerous to know.”

Read all four questions.

Check the answers.

--Marshal Zeringue