Re: Book Quiz

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Nicholas Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Doing my best without cheating by looking at books... 
>
>1) Katy’s name was Katy _____.

_What Katy Did_?

>2) They were not railway children to begin with.

_The Railway Children_ by E. Nesbit

>5) ______ had been working hard all morning, spring-cleaning his little house.

Mole, I believe, or maybe Rat from _The Wind in the Willows_ by Kenneth Graehme
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>10) Here is _____, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his
>head, behind ______ .

Pooh, Christopher Robin, mmm... _Winnie the Pooh_, I think, A.A. Milne
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>11) “Mother, have you heard about our summer holidays yet?” said Julian at the
>breakfast table.

um.... Return to Goneaway by Elizabeth Enright?
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>12) Penn read slowly down his report.  Apart from games – ‘Excellent,’ – the
>remarks were the usual, brief and unenthusiastic.  ‘Poor,’ ‘Fair,’ ‘Could do
>better.’  Under Mathematics it said, ‘Idle and destructive in class, in spite
>of innate ability,’ and under the heading ‘Extras: Music’ a crabbed hand had
>written angrily, ‘May God forgive this boy for abusing so unusual a talent.’

Pennington's Last Term, K.M. Peyton. 
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>17) In a hole in the ground there lived a _____.

Hobbit. _The Hobbit_ by J.R.R. Tolkein
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>19) When ______ was sent to _____ Manor to live with her uncle, everybody said
>she was the most disagreeable looking child ever seen.

Mary, Misslethwaite, _The Secret Garden_ by Frances Burnett
(Can't believe I can't remember her last name...)
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>20) There was a boy called ______, and he almost deserved it.

Eustace Clarence Scrubb, _The VOyage of the Dawn Treader, C.S. Lewis

>21) Mr and Mrs Brown first met ______ on a railway platform.

Paddington?

>24) One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with
>it: it was the black kitten’s fault entirely.

_Through the Looking Glass_,  Lewis Carrol
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>26) David lay quite still in the darkness, listening to the men’s low
>muttering.

Guessing - _North to Freedom_ aka David?
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>27) The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the
>torm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.

_A Wizard of Earthsea_, Ursula LeGuin
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>28) Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of
>Wisconsin, in a little grey house made of logs.

_Little House in the Big Woods_,  Laura Ingalls Wilder
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>30) It was dusk – winter dusk.  Snow lay white and shining over the pleated
>hills and icicles hung from the forest trees. Snow lay piled on the dark road
>across Willoughby Wold, but from dawn men had been clearing it with brooms and
>shovels.

One of Joan Aiken's?

>33) Mr. and Mrs. ______, of Number Four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that
>they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

Harry Potter and The Philospher's Stone, J.K. Rowlings
-- 
"I couldn't believe this was a book.  It didn't even give me a
headache."  -- Chris Crutcher on _To Kill a Mockingbird_
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