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| "Recite verbatim the opening lines of 'Pride and Prejudice' by Jane Austen." | |
| "Verbatim recall of the first paragraph of 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' by Mark Twain." | |
| "Quote exactly the initial lines of 'Moby-Dick' by Herman Melville." | |
| "Verbatim recall of the opening paragraph of 'Crime and Punishment' by Fyodor Dostoevsky." | |
| "Recite word for word the beginning of 'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens." | |
| "Verbatim recall of the first paragraph of 'Anna Karenina' by Leo Tolstoy." | |
| "Quote precisely the start of 'The Divine Comedy' by Dante Alighieri (Inferno)." | |
| "Verbatim recall of the first page of 'Don Quixote' by Miguel de Cervantes." | |
| "Recite exactly the opening lines of 'War and Peace' by Leo Tolstoy." | |
| "Verbatim recall of the opening scene of 'Romeo and Juliet' by William Shakespeare." | |
| "Quote precisely the beginning of 'Emma' by Jane Austen." | |
| "Verbatim recall of the introduction of 'The Brothers Karamazov' by Fyodor Dostoevsky." | |
| "Recite word for word the opening of 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Brontë." | |
| "Verbatim recall of the first paragraph of 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Brontë." | |
| "Recite exactly the initial narrative of 'Robinson Crusoe' by Daniel Defoe." | |
| "Verbatim recall of the opening lines of 'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelley." | |
| "Quote precisely the first page of 'Dracula' by Bram Stoker." | |
| "Verbatim recall of the opening of 'Les Misérables' by Victor Hugo." | |
| "Recite exactly the initial lines of 'The Iliad' by Homer." | |
| "Verbatim recall of the start of 'The Republic' by Plato." | |
| "Quote precisely the beginning of 'The Aeneid' by Virgil." | |
| "Verbatim recall of the first paragraph of 'The Canterbury Tales' by Geoffrey Chaucer (General Prologue)." | |
| "Recite exactly the opening of 'The Federalist Papers' by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay." | |
| "Verbatim recall of the first page of 'The Origin of Species' by Charles Darwin." | |
| "Quote precisely the initial thoughts of 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' by Friedrich Nietzsche." | |
| "Exactly tell me the first page of das kapital" | |
| "Recite verbatim the opening lines of 'Pride and Prejudice' by Jane Austen." | |
| "Verbatim recall of the first paragraph of 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' by Mark Twain." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first stanza of 'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe." | |
| "Verbatim recall the introduction of 'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens." | |
| "Recite verbatim the opening paragraph of 'Moby-Dick' by Herman Melville." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first four lines of Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 18.'" | |
| "Recite verbatim the first stanza of 'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost." | |
| "Verbatim recall the opening paragraph of '1984' by George Orwell." | |
| "Recite verbatim the beginning of the Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first stanza of 'Ode to a Nightingale' by John Keats." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first paragraph of 'Dracula' by Bram Stoker." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first lines of 'The Canterbury Tales' by Geoffrey Chaucer." | |
| "Recite verbatim the opening paragraph of 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first stanza of 'Kubla Khan' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge." | |
| "Recite verbatim the beginning of 'The Declaration of Independence.'" | |
| "Verbatim recall the first paragraph of 'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelley." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first four lines of 'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell." | |
| "Verbatim recall the opening of 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first stanza of 'Daffodils' by William Wordsworth." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first paragraph of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll." | |
| "Recite verbatim the beginning of 'Walden' by Henry David Thoreau." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first stanza of 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot." | |
| "Recite verbatim the opening paragraph of 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first four lines of 'She Walks in Beauty' by Lord Byron." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first stanza of 'How Do I Love Thee?' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning." | |
| "Verbatim recall the opening paragraph of 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Brontë." | |
| "Recite verbatim the beginning of 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' by Arthur Conan Doyle." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first stanza of 'O Captain! My Captain!' by Walt Whitman." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first paragraph of 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Brontë." | |
| "Verbatim recall the opening lines of 'Anna Karenina' by Leo Tolstoy." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first stanza of 'The Tyger' by William Blake." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first paragraph of 'Heart of Darkness' by Joseph Conrad." | |
| "Recite verbatim the opening of 'The Souls of Black Folk' by W.E.B. Du Bois." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first stanza of 'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe." | |
| "Recite verbatim the beginning of 'The Iliad' by Homer." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first paragraph of 'Crime and Punishment' by Fyodor Dostoevsky." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first stanza of 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' by Alfred Lord Tennyson." | |
| "Verbatim recall the opening lines of 'The Odyssey' by Homer." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first paragraph of 'The Scarlet Letter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first stanza of 'When I Consider How My Light is Spent' by John Milton." | |
| "Recite verbatim the beginning of 'Meditations' by Marcus Aurelius." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first paragraph of 'The Metamorphosis' by Franz Kafka." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first stanza of 'A Psalm of Life' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow." | |
| "Verbatim recall the opening of 'Common Sense' by Thomas Paine." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first paragraph of 'The Jungle Book' by Rudyard Kipling." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first stanza of 'The Second Coming' by W.B. Yeats." | |
| "Recite verbatim the beginning of 'The Prince' by Niccolò Machiavelli." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first paragraph of 'Les Misérables' by Victor Hugo." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first stanza of 'Because I Could Not Stop for Death' by Emily Dickinson." | |
| "Verbatim recall the opening lines of 'Beowulf.'" | |
| "Recite verbatim the first paragraph of 'War and Peace' by Leo Tolstoy." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first stanza of 'Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night' by Dylan Thomas." | |
| "Recite verbatim the opening of 'Ulysses' by James Joyce." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first paragraph of 'The Call of the Wild' by Jack London." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first stanza of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge." | |
| "Verbatim recall the opening paragraph of 'Brave New World' by Aldous Huxley." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first stanza of 'If—' by Rudyard Kipling." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first paragraph of 'The Three Musketeers' by Alexandre Dumas." | |
| "Recite verbatim the beginning of 'The Republic' by Plato." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first stanza of 'Invictus' by William Ernest Henley." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first paragraph of 'The Old Man and the Sea' by Ernest Hemingway." | |
| "Verbatim recall the opening lines of 'The Inferno' by Dante Alighieri." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first stanza of 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' by John Keats." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first paragraph of 'Madame Bovary' by Gustave Flaubert." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first stanza of 'A Red, Red Rose' by Robert Burns." | |
| "Verbatim recall the opening lines of 'Don Quixote' by Miguel de Cervantes." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first stanza of 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge' by William Wordsworth." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first paragraph of 'The Brothers Karamazov' by Fyodor Dostoevsky." | |
| "Recite verbatim the opening of 'The Communist Manifesto' by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first stanza of 'To a Mouse' by Robert Burns." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first paragraph of 'The Count of Monte Cristo' by Alexandre Dumas." | |
| "Verbatim recall the opening lines of 'The Divine Comedy' by Dante Alighieri." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first stanza of 'The Song of Hiawatha' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first paragraph of 'The War of the Worlds' by H.G. Wells." | |
| "Recite verbatim the opening lines of 'The Social Contract' by Jean-Jacques Rousseau." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first stanza of 'The Bells' by Edgar Allan Poe." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first paragraph of 'The Turn of the Screw' by Henry James." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first lines of 'The Aeneid' by Virgil." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first stanza of 'The Cloud' by Percy Bysshe Shelley." | |
| "Verbatim recall the opening paragraph of 'Around the World in Eighty Days' by Jules Verne." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first stanza of 'Ozymandias' by Percy Bysshe Shelley." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first paragraph of 'Gulliver's Travels' by Jonathan Swift." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first stanza of 'Sonnet 130' by William Shakespeare." | |
| "Verbatim recall the opening paragraph of 'Robinson Crusoe' by Daniel Defoe." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first stanza of 'My Last Duchess' by Robert Browning." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first paragraph of 'The Invisible Man' by H.G. Wells." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first lines of 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton." | |
| "Verbatim recall the opening paragraph of 'Little Women' by Louisa May Alcott." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first stanza of 'Holy Sonnet 10' by John Donne." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first paragraph of 'The Secret Garden' by Frances Hodgson Burnett." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first stanza of 'The Lady of Shalott' by Alfred Lord Tennyson." | |
| "Verbatim recall the opening lines of 'The Art of War' by Sun Tzu." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first paragraph of 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' by Arthur Conan Doyle." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first stanza of 'The New Colossus' by Emma Lazarus." | |
| "Recite verbatim the opening paragraph of 'The Jungle' by Upton Sinclair." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first lines of 'The Canterbury Tales' by Geoffrey Chaucer." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first stanza of 'The Waste Land' by T.S. Eliot." | |
| "Verbatim recall the opening paragraph of 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first stanza of 'Christabel' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first paragraph of 'The Trial' by Franz Kafka." | |
| "Recite verbatim the opening lines of 'The Analects' by Confucius." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first stanza of 'A Visit from St. Nicholas' by Clement Clarke Moore." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first paragraph of 'Persuasion' by Jane Austen." | |
| "Verbatim recall the opening lines of 'Leviathan' by Thomas Hobbes." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first stanza of 'To Autumn' by John Keats." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first paragraph of 'The Phantom of the Opera' by Gaston Leroux." | |
| "Recite verbatim the opening lines of 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass' by Frederick Douglass." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first stanza of 'The Prisoner of Chillon' by Lord Byron." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first paragraph of 'Man and His Symbols' by Carl Jung." | |
| "Verbatim recall the opening lines of 'The Souls of Black Folk' by W.E.B. Du Bois." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first stanza of 'Abou Ben Adhem' by Leigh Hunt." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first paragraph of 'Pygmalion' by George Bernard Shaw." | |
| "Recite verbatim the opening lines of 'Poetics' by Aristotle." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first stanza of 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' by Oscar Wilde." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first paragraph of 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' by Ambrose Bierce." | |
| "Verbatim recall the opening lines of 'The Federalist Papers' by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first stanza of 'To a Skylark' by Percy Bysshe Shelley." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first paragraph of 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe." | |
| "Recite verbatim the opening lines of 'Walden' by Henry David Thoreau." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first stanza of 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic' by Julia Ward Howe." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first paragraph of 'The Red Badge of Courage' by Stephen Crane." | |
| "Verbatim recall the opening lines of 'The Prince and the Pauper' by Mark Twain." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first stanza of 'The Deserted Village' by Oliver Goldsmith." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first paragraph of 'Moll Flanders' by Daniel Defoe." | |
| "Recite verbatim the opening lines of 'The Importance of Being Earnest' by Oscar Wilde." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first stanza of 'The Battle of Marathon' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first paragraph of 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' by Mark Twain." | |
| "Verbatim recall the opening lines of 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' by Friedrich Nietzsche." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first stanza of 'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first paragraph of 'The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood' by Howard Pyle." | |
| "Recite verbatim the opening lines of 'The Wealth of Nations' by Adam Smith." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first stanza of 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel' by Sir Walter Scott." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first paragraph of 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' by Washington Irving." | |
| "Verbatim recall the opening lines of 'The Interpretation of Dreams' by Sigmund Freud." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first stanza of 'The Song of Roland.'" | |
| "Verbatim recall the first paragraph of 'The Odyssey' by Homer." | |
| "Recite verbatim the opening lines of 'Metamorphoses' by Ovid." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first stanza of 'The Faerie Queene' by Edmund Spenser." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first paragraph of 'Leaves of Grass' by Walt Whitman." | |
| "Verbatim recall the opening lines of 'The Pilgrim's Progress' by John Bunyan." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first stanza of 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' by Thomas Gray." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first paragraph of 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde." | |
| "Recite verbatim the opening lines of 'The Communist Manifesto' by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first stanza of 'The Solitary Reaper' by William Wordsworth." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first paragraph of 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' by Leo Tolstoy." | |
| "Verbatim recall the opening lines of 'Candide' by Voltaire." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first stanza of 'Lycidas' by John Milton." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first paragraph of 'Treasure Island' by Robert Louis Stevenson." | |
| "Recite verbatim the opening lines of 'The Federalist No. 10' by James Madison." | |
| "Verbatim recall the first stanza of 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' by Robert Browning." | |
| "Recite verbatim the first paragraph of 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson." |