Word Frequency Quiz: Moderns
Our sole respondent to the Classics edition of the Word Frequency Quiz got a perfect score. Eric correctly identified these titles with their most frequently used common nouns.
Aesop's Fables: fox, lion, man, wolf, day, time, mouse, ass, way, dog
Candide by Voltaire: man, woman, world, country, master, day, baron, people, sheep, captain
Discourse on the Method by Descartes: order, being, things, time, reason, heart, others, nature, blood, truth
The Iliad by Homer: man, son, ships, spear, horses, hand, gods, armour, battle, city
The New Testament: god, man, things, lord, son, men, father, day, spirit, heaven
The Old Testament: lord, god, king, son, people, house, man, land, children, day
Plato's Republic: man, state, life, justice, soul, nature, knowledge, truth, things, world
Tales of the Brothers Grimm: king, man, time, day, home, father, door, wife, mother, head
Today's quiz requires that you pair up more recent titles with their oftenest-used nouns.
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
The Encyclopedia Brittanica
The Golden Bowl by Henry James
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
Ulysses by James Joyce
Aesop's Fables: fox, lion, man, wolf, day, time, mouse, ass, way, dog
Candide by Voltaire: man, woman, world, country, master, day, baron, people, sheep, captain
Discourse on the Method by Descartes: order, being, things, time, reason, heart, others, nature, blood, truth
The Iliad by Homer: man, son, ships, spear, horses, hand, gods, armour, battle, city
The New Testament: god, man, things, lord, son, men, father, day, spirit, heaven
The Old Testament: lord, god, king, son, people, house, man, land, children, day
Plato's Republic: man, state, life, justice, soul, nature, knowledge, truth, things, world
Tales of the Brothers Grimm: king, man, time, day, home, father, door, wife, mother, head
Today's quiz requires that you pair up more recent titles with their oftenest-used nouns.
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
The Encyclopedia Brittanica
The Golden Bowl by Henry James
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
Ulysses by James Joyce
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