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Test Your Book Smarts

The Strand Bookstore has included a literary matching quiz in its job application form since the 1970s. Here are some quizzes from years past. Can you match the authors and titles? Beware of trick questions. Related Article

George Etheredge for The New York Times

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Produced by JORDAN HARVEY-MORGAN and JUNNINHO THOMAS

Correction: July 24, 2016

A quiz last Sunday with an article about what it is like to work at the Strand Book Store misspelled, in some editions, the surname of the author of “A Confederacy of Dunces,” whose book is part of the quiz given to job applicants. He is John Kennedy Toole, not Tool.