QUIZ: GUESS THE LIBRARY CLASSIC QUOTE

With the arrival of fall, we’re excited to welcome the season of cooler temps, cozy socks, sweaters and curling up on the couch with a good read. Speaking of good reads, the timeless classics behind our latest collection, The Library, are hard to beat. So, book worms, book club enthusiasts and everyone in between, put your wits to the test! Take our quiz and match the quote to the literary work.

1. "The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides."

a) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

b) Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

c) The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe

2. "To be, or not to be, that is the question."

a) The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

b) Hamlet by William Shakespeare

c) Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

3. "Man is not truly one, but two."

a) The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe

b) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

c) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

4. "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest — Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!"

a) The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

b) Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

c) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

5. "The Law of the Jungle… is the only true law now."

a) Hamlet by William Shakespeare

b) The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe

c) The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

6. "Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart."

a) The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe

b) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

c) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

ANSWERS

  1. A
  2. B
  3. C
  4. C
  5. A

How’d you do? Feeling the itch to crack open one of these literary classics to read (or reread!)? Us too. If you need us, we’ll be on the couch in a soft new pair of The Library socks and a good book!

Thanks socks much for reading!

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