1. 

   "By this time he'd opened a new bottle of tequila and was quaffing it down. Then he grabbed a grapefruit and sliced it in half with a Gerber Mini-Magnum – a stainless-steel hunting knife with a blade like a fresh-honed straight razor."

   1. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote

   2. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S Thompson

   3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson

   4. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis

2. 

   "While plying our spoons in the bowl, thinks I to myself, I wonder now if this here has any effect on the head? What's that stultifying saying about chowder-headed people?"

   1. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway

   2. Moby Dick; or the Whale – Herman Melville

   3. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

   4. The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor – Gabriel García Márquez

3. 

   "I'm a very light eater. I really am. That's why I'm so damn skinny. I was supposed to be on this diet where you eat a lot of starches and crap, to gain weight and all, but I didn't ever do it."

   1. The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger

   2. A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L'Engle

   3. On the Road – Jack Kerouac

   4. Swann's Way – Marcel Proust

4. 

   "On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold."

   1. Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell

   2. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

   3. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald

   4. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier

5. 

   "In order to test his taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out on an old newspaper."

   1. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

   2. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera

   3. Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka

   4. The Time Machine – HG Wells

6. 

   "Roasted eggs were a previously unknown luxury and very hot potatoes with salt and fresh butter in them were fit for a woodland king – besides being deliciously satisfying."

   1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

   2. Stig of the Dump - Clive King

   3. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – Michael Chabon

   4. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

7. 

   "There were pleasant feelings, and she walked about and indulged them till it was necessary to do as the others did, and collect round the strawberry-beds..."

   1. Emma – Jane Austen

   2. East of Eden – John Steinbeck

   3. Anne of Green Gables – Lucy Maud Montgomery

   4. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott

8. 

   "Those secret tastes, defeated in the past by oranges and rhubarb, broke out into an irrepressible urge when she began to weep. She went back to eating earth."

   1. Hopscotch – Julio Cortázar

   2. The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende

   3. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez

   4. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel

Solutions

1:B, 2:B, 3:A, 4:C, 5:C, 6:D, 7:A, 8:C

Scores

1. 0 and above.

   Oh dear. Perhaps the delicious-looking photographs were a little too distracting. You really haven't chewed these over thoroughly enough

2. 1 and above.

   Oh dear. Perhaps the delicious-looking photographs were a little too distracting. You really haven't chewed these over thoroughly enough

3. 2 and above.

   Oh dear. Perhaps the delicious-looking photographs were a little too distracting. You really haven't chewed these over thoroughly enough

4. 3 and above.

   Oh dear. Perhaps the delicious-looking photographs were a little too distracting. You really haven't chewed these over thoroughly enough

5. 4 and above.

   Not bad. Maybe you could do with another visit to the library – or the kitchen

6. 5 and above.

   Not bad. Maybe you could do with another visit to the library – or the kitchen

7. 6 and above.

   Well done – you're clearly a connoisseur of both food and literature

8. 7 and above.

   Well done – you're clearly a connoisseur of both food and literature

9. 8 and above.

   Well done – you're clearly a connoisseur of both food and literature