ARE YOU A SAVVY READER?

You know how you love to watch those quiz shows and shout answers at the screen while others in the room stare with dropped jaw? "Wow," they say, "you should be there, winning the money."

Well, here's your chance to shine without even turning on the TV. And when those same folk catch you hollering at the computer, just tell them your brilliance can't be contained.

Ready? Category is Literature. You have five minutes on the clock. Name the title and author of the following classics.

1. This influential and widely acclaimed story details the two days in the life of 16 year old Holden Caulfield after he has been expelled from prep school. 

2. Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, this story chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant of La Mancha and his faithful squire as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain.

3. Based on the author's own experiences as a child in Germantown, Pennsylvania, this story concerns the lives and loves of four sisters growing up during the American Civil War. 

4. This satirical novel follows the pacifist Yossarian, a 28-year-old captain in the Army Air Forces who serves as a B-25 bombardier during World War II.

5. This controversial masterpiece indelibly captured America during the Great Depression through the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads. 

6. This novel begins with the memorable line, It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

7. Told in language of great simplicity and power, this is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.

8. This story of beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson is told through separate monologues by her three brothers: the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason.

9. Set in the southern United States of the 1930s, this novel tells the story of a young girl's father as he hopelessly strives to prove the innocence of a black man accused of raping and beating a white woman.

10. This is a historical chronicle of Russia's struggle with Napoleon.

1. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

2. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

3. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

4. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

5. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

6.  Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

7. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

8. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

9. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

10. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy