1. The Church had become a tomb where forty-seven bodies turned to leather and stains had been lying on the concrete floor the past five years, though not lying where they had been shot with Kalashnikovs or hacked to death with machetes.
A) PAGAN BABIES by Elmore Leonard
B) FALSE MEMORY by Dean Koontz
C) SICK PUPPY by Carl Hiaasen
D) TIMELINE by Michael Crichton

2. In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos of his and Joe Kavalier's greatest creation, that back when he was a boy, sealed and hog-tied inside the airtight vessel known as Brooklyn, New York, he had been haunted by dreams of Harry Houdini.
A) PURPLE CANE ROAD by James Lee Burke
B) THE CAROUSEL by Richard Paul Evans
C) THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY by Michael Chabon
D) THE HUMAN STAIN by Philip Roth

3. For old times' sake, the doctors of zoology had driven out of town that Tuesday afternoon to make a final visit to the singing salt dunes at Baritone Bay.
A) GAP CREEK by Robert Morgan
B) BEING DEAD by Jim Crace
C) ANIL'S GHOST by Michael Ondaatje
D) PLAINSONG by Kent Haruf

4. Anyone who watches even the slightest amount of TV is familiar with this scene: An agent knocks on the door of a seemingly ordinary home or office.
A) ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY by David Sedaris
B) A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS by Dave Eggers
C) ABOUT A BOY by Nick Hornby
D) POBBY AND DINGAN by Ben Rice

5. Brianne Parker didn't look like a bank robber or a murderer -- her pleasantly plump baby face fooled everyone.
A) HUGGER MUGGER by Robert Parker
B) CRADLE AND ALL by James Patterson
C) EASY PREY by John Sandford
D) ROSES ARE RED by James Patterson

6. Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits.
A) THE FIG EATER by Joy Shields
B) PRODIGAL SUMMER by Barbara Kingsolver
C) THE DRESS LODGER by Sheri Holman
D) BLONDE by Joyce Carol Oates

7. Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.
A) THE PILOT'S WIFE by Anita Shreve
B) THE BLIND ASSASSIN by Margaret Atwood
C) DISOBEDIENCE by Jane Hamilton
D) THE BONESETTER'S DAUGHTER by Amy Tan

8. Early in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway.
A) WHITE TEETH by Zadie Smith
B) BRIDGET JONES: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding
C) GETTING OVER IT by Anna Maxted
D) BLUE ANGEL by Francine Prose

9. The villagers of Little Hazelton still called it "the Riddle House," even though it had been many years since the Riddle family had lived there.
A) BIG STONE GAP by Adriana Trigiani
B) GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING by Tracy Chevalier
C) THE WAY FORWARD IS WITH A BROKEN HEART by Alice Walker
D) HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE by J.K. Rowling

10. It was terribly hot that summer Mr. Robertson left town, and for a long while the river seemed dead.
A) ANIMAL HUSBANDRY by Laura Zigman
B) AMY AND ISABELLE by Elizabeth Strout
C) BEE SEASON by Myla Goldberg
D) ICY SPARKS by Gwynn Hyman Rubio