pop quiz answers!
1) Clarissa is planning a party. She buys some flowers, thanks god every day for the little things despite being an athiest, and remembers that summer long ago when her first lesbian relationship was cruelly interrupted by an interfering and unworthy man.
+To the Lighthouse - 4 (9.8%) [Virginia Woolf]
+Villette - 0 (0.0%) [a Bronte. Charlotte?]
+Mrs Dalloway - 31 (75.6%) [Woolf]
+Bonfire of the Vanities - 3 (7.3%) [Tom Wolfe]
+The Vicar's House - 3 (7.3%) [I think I made this up!]
2) A handsome, wealthy man moves into the neighborhood. Someone's sister gets sick, engaged, disengaged, and married. Letters are exchanged, as are games of wit and refusals to dance.
Northanger Abbey - 1 (2.1%) [Jane Austen]
+Pride and Prejudice - 47 (97.9%) [Austen]
+Two Guineas - 0 (0.0%) [Virginia Woolf]
+The Professor - 0 (0.0%) [another Bronte. Anne, I think.]
+Sybil - 0 (0.0%) [Disreali, or however that is spelled]
3) A young boy is recruited for a military space camp. His brother accidentally becomes president of the world, and adults always think it's better if kids don't know that it's not all a game.
+The Giver - 1 (2.2%) [Lois Lowry]
+A Wrinkle in Time - 2 (4.4%) [Madeline L'Engle]
+Ender's Game - 40 (88.9%) [Orson Scott Card]
+Eragon - 0 (0.0%) [Paolini, and for a 15-year-old home schooler, it's pretty good]
+Space Invaders - 2 (4.4%) [I think this is a video game]
4) A young black man from the ghetto gets a job as a rich white girl's driver. They make out and he accidentally kills her, then throws her body in the furnace. But first, he has to cut off her head to get her to fit.
+Black Boy - 2 (5.1%) [Richard Wright, and this is more of an autobiography, very interesting]
+Native Son - 29 (74.4%) [Wright]
+The Autobiography of Malcom X - 2 (5.1%) [Malcom X, and I'm pretty sure he never cut anyone's head off. Well. Reasonably sure.]
+The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - 2 (5.1%) [J.W. Johnson]
+The Yellow Wallpaper - 4 (10.3%) [Charlotte Perkins Gillman]
5) Boy gets expelled from school. Boy hates the word 'grand,' and the phonies who use it. Boy goes to New York and buys a record for his younger sister. Boy wonders what it all really means and is very bildungsroman about the whole thing.
+The Sun Also Rises - 1 (2.2%) [Hemingway]
+Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenter - 0 (0.0%) [JD Salinger, and his best work, in my opinion]
+Catcher in the Rye - 44 (95.7%) [Salinger again]
+Ulysses - 0 (0.0%) [James Joyce, *stabs self*]
+Cities of Salt - 1 (2.2%) [Abdelrahman Munif, a very interesting book about American imperialism]
6) Young girl marries very old man to the horror of her parents. Girl just really wants to help the old man with his scholarly research; doesn't seem to understand that marriage includes fucking. Old man dies, young girl courted by age-appropriate man, but remains unmoved by his lack of Oedipal fulfillment.
+Middlemarch - 23 (62.2%) [George Eliot]
+North and South - 2 (5.4%) [Elizabeth Gaskell]
+The Vicar's House - 9 (24.3%) [Again, pretty sure I made this up]
+Bacchnalia - 1 (2.7%) [another creation]
+The Waves - 2 (5.4%) [Virginia Woolf]
7) A family goes on vacation by the seaside. The mother has an affair with a younger man, feels great remorse, and drowns herself in the sea.
+The House of Mirth - 7 (16.3%) [Edith Wharton, and very very good]
+Dangerous Liasons - 2 (4.7%) [Pierre Choderlos de Laclos]
+The Wings of the Dove - 4 (9.3%) [Henry James, which I've never read, but the movie is very good, with Helena Bonham Carter, and I like James, so it's probably a good book.]
+The American - 0 (0.0%) [James again]
+The Awakening - 30 (69.8%) [Kate Chopin]
8) Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl beneath the pine trees. Girl convinces boy that they should commit suicide via snow sled. Naturally, this doesn't work. Because it's a frigging SLED.
+Ethan Frome - 24 (51.1%) [Edith Wharton. All I can think is, she went MAD]
+A Heart in Winter - 7 (14.9%) [as far as I know, this is a film I watched for French class in college.]
+Call of the Wild - 1 (2.1%) [London]
+North and South - 0 (0.0%) [Gaskell]
+Two Idiots on Freaking SLED - 15 (31.9%) [Because YES.]
9) An immigrant family ends up in Chicago. We get a lesson in the grossness of the meat packing industry and how sausage is really made. We learn why unions and socialism are awesome.
+The Factory Girl - 1 (2.3%) [I think this is a movie that hasn't come out yet?]
+Atlas Shrugged - 0 (0.0%) [Ayn Rand]
+The Jungle - 39 (90.7%) [Upton Sinclair]
+The Wealth of Nations - 3 (7.0%) [Adam Smith]
+Maggie: A Girl of the Streets - 0 (0.0%) [Stephen Crane]
10) A brilliant and misunderstood architect meets a beautiful socialite. He rapes her, but she loves it and comes back for more. The architect blows up one of his own buildings as an artistic statement, all for a criminal trial set-up so the author can go on and on about the importance of individualism and capitalism and how socialism and altruism are evil and make people (and the country) weak and sheep-like.
+The Rise and Fall of Silas Lapham - 1 (2.4%) [William Dean Howell]
+The American - 5 (11.9%) [Henry James]
+Anthem - 0 (0.0%) [Ayn Rand]
+The Fountainhead - 36 (85.7%) [Ayn Rand, and yes, I know, it's terrible]
+The Bourne Identity - 0 (0.0%) [Robert Ludlum]
This took FOREVER, by the way. If your name isn't up here, it's because you didn't guess any authors and I was too lazy to go through every name of every person who took the quiz to figure out your tally.
18-20: You Are Ken Jennings, and What's More, You Know Who That Is:
You Are Ken Jennings. Either you've read all the same random crap as I have, you had to memorize this shit for the English Lit GRE subject test, or you just know it for the fun of it. Good job, genius! You rock! And you get a prize! The prize of knowing that you know more books and authors than most of my flist! And I will make you banners, because I am awesome like that. Alternately, comment with a pairing and a prompt and I'll write you a little something. Again, because I'm awesome.
kitsune13: 20
banishedfaith: 20
memorycharm: 20
jae_w: 19
sanyin: 18
cormallen: 18
emilytheodd: 18
15-17: You Are Adam Brody's Sense of Listlessness Post-The O.C. Cancellation:
Adam Brody may be adorable and have great hair and get to hang out with JC Chasez all the time, but ever since the cancellation of The O.C., all he does is read. Which is cool and all, but I think if I had lots and lots of teen soap opera money, I'd like. Buy some stuff.
ataralas: 17
glendaglamazon: 17
zelda_zee: 17
loose_pages_sd: 16
prysmicdork: 15
northernsky_: 15
fiercynn: 15
10-14: You Are JC Chasez, Bored on the Bus, or More Recently on Your Couch, Because Your Only Job is with the Backstreet Boys, Alas:
You are JC Chasez. You read out of boredom, and to feel smarter than Justin. You're still not as smart as Chris, but you think maybe that Howard Roark guy had some good ideas about art and never compromising and stuff. Maybe, you think, you should make a statement like that to Jive. A statement that involves blowing some shit up. Because yes.
topaz119: 14
neverneverfic: 13
mizbean: 12
sparrowette: 11
without_me: 10
exsequar: 10
sapphirescarlet: 10
wrenlet: 10
absitively: 10
0-9: You Are Lance Bass, and Very Pretty:
Like Lance, you are just too pretty and wonderful to bother with that whole reading obscure Victorian and/or propaganda-ish novels. Plus, you have people who do that sort of thing for you, and then summarize. That way, you can read the latest Meg Cabot without feeling like you're missing out, or else, you know, have lots of fantastic gay sex with beautiful people, because that's sort of your job now.
_lisalisa_: 6
puszysty: 6
txtequilanights: 5
emeraldserpent: 5
my_only_1_52: 4
minotaurs: 1
+To the Lighthouse - 4 (9.8%) [Virginia Woolf]
+Villette - 0 (0.0%) [a Bronte. Charlotte?]
+Mrs Dalloway - 31 (75.6%) [Woolf]
+Bonfire of the Vanities - 3 (7.3%) [Tom Wolfe]
+The Vicar's House - 3 (7.3%) [I think I made this up!]
2) A handsome, wealthy man moves into the neighborhood. Someone's sister gets sick, engaged, disengaged, and married. Letters are exchanged, as are games of wit and refusals to dance.
Northanger Abbey - 1 (2.1%) [Jane Austen]
+Pride and Prejudice - 47 (97.9%) [Austen]
+Two Guineas - 0 (0.0%) [Virginia Woolf]
+The Professor - 0 (0.0%) [another Bronte. Anne, I think.]
+Sybil - 0 (0.0%) [Disreali, or however that is spelled]
3) A young boy is recruited for a military space camp. His brother accidentally becomes president of the world, and adults always think it's better if kids don't know that it's not all a game.
+The Giver - 1 (2.2%) [Lois Lowry]
+A Wrinkle in Time - 2 (4.4%) [Madeline L'Engle]
+Ender's Game - 40 (88.9%) [Orson Scott Card]
+Eragon - 0 (0.0%) [Paolini, and for a 15-year-old home schooler, it's pretty good]
+Space Invaders - 2 (4.4%) [I think this is a video game]
4) A young black man from the ghetto gets a job as a rich white girl's driver. They make out and he accidentally kills her, then throws her body in the furnace. But first, he has to cut off her head to get her to fit.
+Black Boy - 2 (5.1%) [Richard Wright, and this is more of an autobiography, very interesting]
+Native Son - 29 (74.4%) [Wright]
+The Autobiography of Malcom X - 2 (5.1%) [Malcom X, and I'm pretty sure he never cut anyone's head off. Well. Reasonably sure.]
+The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - 2 (5.1%) [J.W. Johnson]
+The Yellow Wallpaper - 4 (10.3%) [Charlotte Perkins Gillman]
5) Boy gets expelled from school. Boy hates the word 'grand,' and the phonies who use it. Boy goes to New York and buys a record for his younger sister. Boy wonders what it all really means and is very bildungsroman about the whole thing.
+The Sun Also Rises - 1 (2.2%) [Hemingway]
+Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenter - 0 (0.0%) [JD Salinger, and his best work, in my opinion]
+Catcher in the Rye - 44 (95.7%) [Salinger again]
+Ulysses - 0 (0.0%) [James Joyce, *stabs self*]
+Cities of Salt - 1 (2.2%) [Abdelrahman Munif, a very interesting book about American imperialism]
6) Young girl marries very old man to the horror of her parents. Girl just really wants to help the old man with his scholarly research; doesn't seem to understand that marriage includes fucking. Old man dies, young girl courted by age-appropriate man, but remains unmoved by his lack of Oedipal fulfillment.
+Middlemarch - 23 (62.2%) [George Eliot]
+North and South - 2 (5.4%) [Elizabeth Gaskell]
+The Vicar's House - 9 (24.3%) [Again, pretty sure I made this up]
+Bacchnalia - 1 (2.7%) [another creation]
+The Waves - 2 (5.4%) [Virginia Woolf]
7) A family goes on vacation by the seaside. The mother has an affair with a younger man, feels great remorse, and drowns herself in the sea.
+The House of Mirth - 7 (16.3%) [Edith Wharton, and very very good]
+Dangerous Liasons - 2 (4.7%) [Pierre Choderlos de Laclos]
+The Wings of the Dove - 4 (9.3%) [Henry James, which I've never read, but the movie is very good, with Helena Bonham Carter, and I like James, so it's probably a good book.]
+The American - 0 (0.0%) [James again]
+The Awakening - 30 (69.8%) [Kate Chopin]
8) Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl beneath the pine trees. Girl convinces boy that they should commit suicide via snow sled. Naturally, this doesn't work. Because it's a frigging SLED.
+Ethan Frome - 24 (51.1%) [Edith Wharton. All I can think is, she went MAD]
+A Heart in Winter - 7 (14.9%) [as far as I know, this is a film I watched for French class in college.]
+Call of the Wild - 1 (2.1%) [London]
+North and South - 0 (0.0%) [Gaskell]
+Two Idiots on Freaking SLED - 15 (31.9%) [Because YES.]
9) An immigrant family ends up in Chicago. We get a lesson in the grossness of the meat packing industry and how sausage is really made. We learn why unions and socialism are awesome.
+The Factory Girl - 1 (2.3%) [I think this is a movie that hasn't come out yet?]
+Atlas Shrugged - 0 (0.0%) [Ayn Rand]
+The Jungle - 39 (90.7%) [Upton Sinclair]
+The Wealth of Nations - 3 (7.0%) [Adam Smith]
+Maggie: A Girl of the Streets - 0 (0.0%) [Stephen Crane]
10) A brilliant and misunderstood architect meets a beautiful socialite. He rapes her, but she loves it and comes back for more. The architect blows up one of his own buildings as an artistic statement, all for a criminal trial set-up so the author can go on and on about the importance of individualism and capitalism and how socialism and altruism are evil and make people (and the country) weak and sheep-like.
+The Rise and Fall of Silas Lapham - 1 (2.4%) [William Dean Howell]
+The American - 5 (11.9%) [Henry James]
+Anthem - 0 (0.0%) [Ayn Rand]
+The Fountainhead - 36 (85.7%) [Ayn Rand, and yes, I know, it's terrible]
+The Bourne Identity - 0 (0.0%) [Robert Ludlum]
This took FOREVER, by the way. If your name isn't up here, it's because you didn't guess any authors and I was too lazy to go through every name of every person who took the quiz to figure out your tally.
18-20: You Are Ken Jennings, and What's More, You Know Who That Is:
You Are Ken Jennings. Either you've read all the same random crap as I have, you had to memorize this shit for the English Lit GRE subject test, or you just know it for the fun of it. Good job, genius! You rock! And you get a prize! The prize of knowing that you know more books and authors than most of my flist! And I will make you banners, because I am awesome like that. Alternately, comment with a pairing and a prompt and I'll write you a little something. Again, because I'm awesome.
kitsune13: 20
banishedfaith: 20
memorycharm: 20
jae_w: 19
sanyin: 18
cormallen: 18
emilytheodd: 18
15-17: You Are Adam Brody's Sense of Listlessness Post-The O.C. Cancellation:
Adam Brody may be adorable and have great hair and get to hang out with JC Chasez all the time, but ever since the cancellation of The O.C., all he does is read. Which is cool and all, but I think if I had lots and lots of teen soap opera money, I'd like. Buy some stuff.
ataralas: 17
glendaglamazon: 17
zelda_zee: 17
loose_pages_sd: 16
prysmicdork: 15
northernsky_: 15
fiercynn: 15
10-14: You Are JC Chasez, Bored on the Bus, or More Recently on Your Couch, Because Your Only Job is with the Backstreet Boys, Alas:
You are JC Chasez. You read out of boredom, and to feel smarter than Justin. You're still not as smart as Chris, but you think maybe that Howard Roark guy had some good ideas about art and never compromising and stuff. Maybe, you think, you should make a statement like that to Jive. A statement that involves blowing some shit up. Because yes.
topaz119: 14
neverneverfic: 13
mizbean: 12
sparrowette: 11
without_me: 10
exsequar: 10
sapphirescarlet: 10
wrenlet: 10
absitively: 10
0-9: You Are Lance Bass, and Very Pretty:
Like Lance, you are just too pretty and wonderful to bother with that whole reading obscure Victorian and/or propaganda-ish novels. Plus, you have people who do that sort of thing for you, and then summarize. That way, you can read the latest Meg Cabot without feeling like you're missing out, or else, you know, have lots of fantastic gay sex with beautiful people, because that's sort of your job now.
_lisalisa_: 6
puszysty: 6
txtequilanights: 5
emeraldserpent: 5
my_only_1_52: 4
minotaurs: 1