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Can you identify whose last words these are?

1) ?I?ll burn my books. Ah, Mephostophilis!?
Faust (Goethe)

Doktor Faustus (Thomas Mann)

Dr Faustus (Marlowe)

Dr Thorne (Trollope)

2) ?...the rest is silence.?
Macbeth (Shakespeare)

Hamlet (Shakespeare)

Othello (Shakespeare)

King Lear (Shakespeare)

3) ?An emperor ought to die on his feet.?
Vespasian (Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars)

Nero (Tacitus, The Annals)

Julius Caesar (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar)

Justinian (Procopius, Secret History)

4) ?Crito, we ought to offer a cock to Asclepius. See to it, and don?t forget.?
Croesus (Herodotus, Histories)

Patroclus (Homer, The Iliad)

Socrates (Plato, Phaedo)

Trimalchio (Petronius, The Satyricon)

5) ?Where am I? What am I doing? Why? Lord, forgive me for everything!?
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)

Madame Bovary (Flaubert)

Catherine Earnshaw (Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights)

Therese Raquin (Zola)

6) ?I don?t complain of none, dear boy.? Name?
Mr Micawber (Dickens, David Copperfield)

Mr Squeers (Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby)

Magwitch (Dickens, Great Expectations)

Mr Pickwick (Dickens, Pickwick Papers)

7) ?Peter Quint - you devil!?
Miles (Henry James, The Turn of the Screw)

Captain Hook (Barrie, Peter Pan)

Bottom (Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

Effie Deans (Walter Scott, The Heart of Midlothian)

8) ?Done because we are too menny [sic]?
Jo March (Alcott, Little Women)

Tom the chimney-sweep (Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies)

Oliver Twist (Dickens)

‘Old Father Time’ (Hardy, Jude the Obscure)

9) ?The horror! The horror!?
Kurtz (Conrad, Heart of Darkness)

Catherine Morland (Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey)

Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)

Dracula (Bram Stoker)

10) ?It is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known?
Maggie Tulliver (George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss)

Sydney Carton (Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities)

Heathcliff (Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights)

Captain Ahab (Melville, Moby-Dick)

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