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Literary First Lines, All-Cat Version

5/8/2015

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Directions: Match the titles below with their corresponding first lines and win a year’s subscription to Animal Planet! (Deadline for entry submission: November 30, 1987.)

Anna Catenina 

Franz Catka’s Metamorphosis 

Song of My Cat 

Pride and Prejudice and Cats 

The Great Catsby 

Brave New Cat

A Tale of Two Kitties

The Wasteland (alternate title: The Litter Box)

Catnapped

Moby Cat

_____________1. They were the best of cats, they were the worst of cats.

_____________2. Call me Pooka.

_____________3. April is the cruelest cat.

_____________4. All happy cats are alike but an unhappy cat is unhappy after its own fashion.

_____________5. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a cat.

_____________6. As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into a giant cat.

_____________7. I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the cat for the last time out of the door of my father's house.

_____________8. In my younger and more vulnerable years my cat gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

_____________9. A squat gray building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and in a shield, the World State's motto, Community, Identity, Cats.

_____________10. I CELEBRATE my cat, and sing my cat, 
And what I assume you shall assume, 
For every cat belonging to me as good belongs to you.

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