I just tried this quiz and got 4 out of 10. Not bad I thought for a godless heathen.
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Can anybody here get 10?
9, but I studied English Lit.
Nine, dammit.
Only 6. Oh well, I didn’t go to church much while growing up.
Six. But I got lucky by guessing.
Not enough questions based on the literature of the world, rather than all those windy Angle works.
Seven. I figured I’d do better. I’ve got some weak spots.
4/10, all guesses. I’ve picked up the Bible a few times but god it’s boring. And I’ve never read any of those works of literature, thank Christ.
I find non-fiction far more interesting.
[quote=“Thelonlieste”]4/10, all guesses. I’ve picked up the Bible a few times but god it’s boring. And I’ve never read any of those works of literature, thank Christ.
I find non-fiction far more interesting.[/quote]
Eh? But it’s not fiction!
Lidderature’s aces! There are whole imaginary worlds to disappear into. (I know that makes me sound like a children’s librarian, but hey…) I can’t imagine how two dimensional my life would feel if I hadn’t read that stuff. But that’s just my point of view.
I try and alternate fiction and non-fiction, but to be honest I only seem to choose history or books about Asian culture or religious stuff (I’m don’t really have much religious faith, although Buddhism gets under my skin, but I’m fascinated by religious customs, texts, laces of worship, philosophy and so on). Can’t be arsed reading biographies, food books or travel writing though: that would be a step too far.
I understand why people may not be Christians but boring? It’s full of cool stuff. 
[quote=“Funk500”]I just tried this quiz and got 4 out of 10. Not bad I thought for a godless heathen.
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Can anybody here get 10?[/quote]
Just took it and I got 10/10. Fairly straight forward, I thought. But I can see how a person wouldn’t know many of those answers if they weren’t raised Christian.
[quote=“Buttercup”][quote=“Thelonlieste”]4/10, all guesses. I’ve picked up the Bible a few times but god it’s boring. And I’ve never read any of those works of literature, thank Christ.
I find non-fiction far more interesting.[/quote]
Eh? But it’s not fiction! [/quote]
Ok slightly unclear. I Was referring to the questions in the quiz regarding Swift, Golding, Steinbeck et al. I read “Of Mice and Men” and, while I appreciate the sparse prose, it did little for me. Well, it reminded me, in a rather dusty and lifeless way, of people I knew - of people I didn’t want to know.
Boredom…
Read something of Swift’s at university (can’t remember what), understand Golding influenced Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, which I’ve read, but…
People always talk about how important it is to have read a particular book and I often get inspired to read something - Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls for example, or Orwell’s 1984 but soon enough I’ll find myself drifting away from the page thinking, surely, there must be more to life than this. My own world - imaginary, or real - is far more compelling than any literature, which I can only read in short bursts.
Teachers tend to bludgeon their students with literature and the, “It’s for your own good” argument. I tried to read the Bible out of a similar guilt for not understanding more of my own civilization. But I couldn’t do it. John Dominic Crossan’s The Historical Jesus, however, was easily consumed.
I fell on the Steinbeck question. I know my Bible, but not my Steinbeck.
4/10. Steinbeck and Moby Dick were the only questions I knew, the rest were guesses.
Big tenner.
I guess I know my Bible AND my Steinbeck.
Good work mate. 
[quote=“the chief”]Big tenner.
I guess I know my Bible AND my Steinbeck.
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And that’s why we love you.
I sense someone is going to mention something about a cat in due course.
Guessing completely at random one should average 3.3 out of ten (3 choices per question), which shows a 4/10 is only 0.7/10 better than chance.
“Those who believeth not shall be damned.” (Mark 16:16)
[quote=“Thelonlieste”]Guessing completely at random one should average 3.3 out of ten (3 choices per question), which shows a 4/10 is only 0.7/10 better than chance.
“Those who believeth not shall be damned.” (Mark 16:16)[/quote]
You have to know the OP personally to appreciate what a stupefying improvement that is on his standard rate of success…for him, random chance would be the streak of a lifetime…
Good to see a man on such a run of luck. I got 4/10 too but that’s probably due to my philistinism.