As a German it's even more interesting to see what Americans read in school compared to us. Books like "The Metamorphosis" and "The Odyssey" were ones I had to read, too. And I know other classes read like "The Great Gatsby," "Lord of the Flies" and "1984."
In England it’s very varied from school to school as they only have to pick around 3 books from a wide list (a 19th century, a Shakespeare and a modern) for GCSE. Edit: although a lot of the ones on the list are also in this video (personally, I did A Christmas Carol, Macbeth and An Inspector Calls. But also did other books on the list like Romeo and Juliet or Of Mice and Men in high schools in the years leading up to GCSE)
I just get jealous of american high schools (one of the very very very few things about america I ever get jealous about) because in my german class, we read a total of 8 books in what would be considered high school and a total of 3 books in english class and I just feel like I missed out on so much good reading material. I'm actually trying to catch up. By now I read 9 out of the books in the video, and only four of them for high school
We read bits of the Odyssey, but that was for World History. We did do the Great Gatsby, but none of the others. From what I remember, we did The Outsiders, The Hunger Games, The Pearl, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Go Set a Watchman, The Crucible, and Of Mice and Men
@@mackenziesapphire7554 I wouldn’t be jealous, I’m pretty sure no one truly reads these books in American high school. For instance I read as little of these books as possible to pass the classes, and I LIKED reading and was a relatively good student compared to a lot of my classmates
The way he pronounced Circe’s name though 😂😂😂 Edit: for those who are confused, it’s pronounced sir-see. The “c” sounds like an “s” Edit 2: okay fine, if the original Greek is Kirk, then he said all the other ones wrong since he said the western version. Either way something jarring happened and linguistics is complicated.
I minored in English lit at university. My takeaway from this video is the American school system is obsessed with American literature, which the rest of the world only experiences through special episodes of sitcoms.
Well, is not like that is wrong, I'm from Chile and while we do have international literature (like Shakespeare) most of our spanish clases are national or at least south american literature. National literature also gives context of what a country was going through at the period of its writting and can leave a historic mark, so to speak...
George Orwell's 1984- English Romeo and Juliet- English The Odyssey- Greek Lore of the Flies- British Frankenstein- English Metamorphosis- German Hamlet- English That is almost half of the books portrayed in the video, each of them from a nationality that isn't American. And even then, why would it be bad to be 'obsessed' about American literature in American school systems? That's like saying Americans are 'obsessed' with American politics or American sports, it's from the place we are currently living in, of course we're gonna learn about it.
Wow this is really all you have to do in America? There is not a single multiple choice question on any of our English papers in the UK. We have 2 exams for literature, both with 3 essays, 2 of them worth 20 marks (compare an extract from the text you studied to another text and explore another moment in the text that also shows a similar idea) and one worth 40 (you get a choice of two questions), and you have to memorise quotations from 3 different texts and a set of poems, and there are also two literature papers, fiction and nonfiction and you have two unseen extracts for both that are thematically linked and you have to answer questions about both and also compare them, then you have to write either a fiction or nonfiction piece worth 40 marks and that is only 2 grades out of the 10 gcses you have to do andihavemocksinoneweekplshelp
@@jesfern there is one multiple choice question on lang. paper 2 (non-fiction), assuming you do aqa? Also good luck on your mocks and real exams, lets hope this year isn't too mean on us!
Ah yes, my favourite character in the Odyssey, 'Sirk' Also, I've only read one of these books for my english class (I'm from England and a lot of these are US classics whereas we do mostly Dickins and Shakespeare) WE DID READ OF MICE AND MEN THOUGH AND I GOT THAT RIGHT
If I makes you feel better, I'm an English Major and I've only (so far in the video) read The Giver (middle school), of Mice and Men (10th), Romeo and Juliet (9th). So honestly even I didn't ever read most of them.
Based on a chance alone one would expect 4/16 on average so 5/16 would be quite likely. In fact given N questions with c choices for each the probability of answering n questions correctly by chance is: P(n) = NCn * (c-1)^(-n) * ((c-1)/c)^N where NCn is the binomial coefficient N over n ( = N! / n! / (N-n)! ). With that we get the most probable situation where 4/16 are answered correctly has probability of P(4) = 22.52 % while answering 5 question correctly has P(5) = 18.01 %.
This is very cool. To me, through your videos I see that you are bright and talented. In this quiz , you show that you can roll with mistakes and don’t have to be perfect. Maybe that’s how you got so bright and talented. 💡✨ Great example for all of us. Thank you! (Also I dreamt about you last night and so looked up a video to watch today and found this! 😆)
I... feel conflicted, because as someone who never had any mandatory reading when she was younger, doing book reports sounds like something I'd enjoy doing now, but I _know_ back then I'd also be like _'UGGGGHHH NO I DON'T CARE ABOUT ANY OF THIS'_
Hard agree. I had some mandatory reading, but none of these books. Now that I'm older, and looking to become wiser and more interesting, I'd love to read a lot of these books.
it's almost like being forced to read something you're not interested isn't a good way to cultivate interest in literature, and literary analysis is way more enjoyable when you're doing it on something you like!
as someone who loves reading, like I read hundreds of books in highschool alone... book reports are poopie doodoo butter 😮 I won't say no one is allowed to like them, but you would have to actually enjoy the report itself: which is doodoo poopie butter
@@ldkmelon No, no, I'd say Sunroses has the right idea; analysis can be fun if you're _that_ engaged by the subject. I remember I wrote a 29-page retrospective on _Sonic Forces_ purely for no-one's benefit but my own and my friends'. Because despite how awful the game was, I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I just had to get my feelings out on the matter, _somehow._ To reiterate, Sonic Forces made me write 29 pages about it. _Sonic. Forces._ And I'd do it again.
@@Meteorite_Shower now go write twenty nine pages on something that you think is a 5/10. i didn't mean to say you can't enjoy writing about something, just that being forced to write about something can ruin it when you would've otherwise enjoyed it.
I cry every practice test I do and I can't even get my first point down, you are deffo not alone (I also spelt table as tabel not long ago so ik that I'm gonna fail my GCSE's) 🤩🤩
I’m ashamed to say I haven’t read a lot of these, but Where The Red Fern Grows is one of my favorite books ever written. I fell in love with it when I was ten years old (I’m 15 now) and read it again last year when my dog died (RIP Tasch). I also read Of Mice and Men for the first time about a year ago. It’s fantastic. I saw the 1992 film with John Malcovich a couple days after reading the book, and was amazed at how closely it stuck to it. I mean they were practically identical.
It's funny, I first read it in school, but it wasn't assigned reading, I just read it on my own. We had a "reading" hour one year where after lunch we had to pick literally anything and read in silence for one hour. I didn't care much about reading at the time and my teacher has a mini library shelf in her classroom which was easier than going to the library, so I just grabbed that. Also where I first encountered Narnia.
@@ForeverMasterless our classroom "library" is how I discovered Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, sadly I found book 2 first and read it before I knew it was book two of 3. lol
They both can, but the conch much more so. Only whoever is holding the conch gets to speak, so it creates some sort of structure among them instead of everyone shouting at once (order over chaos).
What I find funny is that in my high school, out of all of those, the only one we ever worked on was Of Mice and Men. I think they might have done the other ones in the more "advanced" (ap) classes, but still weird. We did things like Edgar Allan Poe, The Help and Macbeth. Even Mockingjay at one point when it came out. I read The Giver series in my own time.
As a Russian, I was quite surprised to guess a lot of them correctly, even though we barely touch any of the books in our school literature program. Probably just me loving fiction books, like 1984, also Soviet Russia had quite a bit of western book adaptations for TV, Huckleberry Finn being one of them. Enjoyed the video, thanks Daniel!
I couldn't answer SO many of these and I have a masters in English Literature. XD I mean, I got the Giver, Catcher in The Rye but only because that one was a multiple choice, To Kill a Mockingbird, Grapes of Wrath, Metamorphosis, Odyssey, Mice and Men, Huckleberry Finn, Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet. The only ones of those I ENJOYED were Giver, Odysseus, and Hamlet. (I'm sorry, but you will never convince me "Not where he eats but where is eaten" isn't one of the funniest lines in Shakespeare). I've never read Lord of the Flies, I know the themes but that's about it, I've read Red Fern Grows but have deliberately blocked as much of it as possible from my mind. I haven't actually read Frankenstein, which surprises me now that I realize it because I've read The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Dracula, so you think I'd have just gone for Frankenstein too. I've read Gatsby but could have never named the location of the manor, and have never read The Outsiders. However - I'm not convinced on this quiz at all. No Dickens (I can't be the only person who had to suffer Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations in Highschool)? No Poe? No Doyle? No Scarlet Letter or Crucible? (Look, I hated them but they're held up as these crucial books in High School English), or The Jungle (also awful, but I guess influential...)? Lighter reads like Austen? No Bronte? (Any of the sisters, though Wuthering Heights is the one that gets pummeled in from Emily, I prefer Jane Eyre by Charlotte).... I mean, fortunately, I didn't have to read Bleak House until college so at least most high schoolers are spared that. My Shakespeare class also VOTED for Titus Andronicus to be read which I don't know what was wrong with my classmates.
5:06 it's moral corruption. The reason Hamlet is considering committing the immoral act of killing his uncle is because his uncle is a terrible king and killed Hamlet Sr who had been a good king
Don’t worry Dan, i didn’t get any of them right and I.. was homeschooled before high school and dropped out before my senior year. Also I haven’t went to college yet.
I know that this vid was made 5 days ago, but I wanted to wish you a happy birthday Daniel! I really love your videos! They make me laugh so hard that I feel like I'm gonna wind up crying. Happy birthday!!!!🎈🎈🎈🎈💘
I'm Canadian and I think the only one of these that I read in high school was To Kill A Mockingbird. I read a few for my first year uni lit class though
I read Island of the Blue Dolphns, Romeo and Juliet, Call of the Wild, Of Mice and Men, Flowers for Algernon, and Lord of the Flies, and read To Kill a Mockingbird on my own time. I've been wanting to read 1984 as well. Some of my classmates read Animal Farm, although I opted not to.
3:13, Odysseus spends an entire decade sailing home from Troy despite Poseidon tormenting and delaying him while Penelope remains faithful to him throughout
As a Brit the only two we studied at school were Of Mice and Men and Romeo and Juliet (yes other classes or years did do Hamlet I'm sure) and the only other one I've actually read is 1984, I've not even heard of half of these!
0:13, it’s about a twelve year old boy in a colourless world who has to be taught to remember what the world was like before the current dystopia came to exist
If anybody hasn't read most of these books go read them here are some of them I have read. To Kill a Mockingbird: is a very emotional book about a Lawyer Atticus defending an Innocent black man accused of a crime. The Outsiders: is about a young boy Ponyboy and his gang having to deal with violent Rich kids, and murders. 1984: is about a man named Winston who works to destroy history for the Dictator Big Brother eventually Winston begins to rebel against them, and becomes a enemy of the state. (Not telling you the rest if you haven't read it)
In Sydney 2000 - 2007, I remember we studied The Grapes of Wrath, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, lots of Shakespeare, and then lots of English novels. I remember North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell and I actually got it as a Xmas present and read the whole thing before semester started, unaware it would be a prescribed text. We also read Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, D.H Lawrence, Charles Dickens
i have never read any of those exept "where the red fern grows"......(i'm a pjo fan so i could easily guess the answer for the Q on the Odyssey, I immediately knew it was not Calypso)
25% is the average score if guessed randomly. A score 60% away from the average suggest you didn't do much better than guessing randomly. .25 + - (.25*.60) = .25 + - .15 So a score between 10% - 40% means you didn't do much better than guessing. You got 5 out of 16 correct. So that is 31%
From most I have talked to people's favorite book from high school (school reading list) was The Giver and most people's favorite read outside of class...is the Hobbit. My favs were Fahrenheit 451 & Shakespeare. Ugh, least favorite was Of Mice and Men...
Friend: You're so smart! You must read so many books! Me: I can't tell you what happens in any of the 16 books mentioned. I didn't read anything that wasn't required.
I'm currently in 9th grade and my current English class just lets us pick what to read and let's us analyze it on our own. Literally every other 9th grade English class is reading the Odyssey, but we just get to read whatever we want as long as it is something that interests us
I’m in 10th grade right now, of all the books discussed here, I’ve only read a handful over the school years. Romeo and Juliet, Of Mice and Men, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Odyssey to be exact. It’s interesting to see which ones were and weren’t included in my teachers’ classrooms.
The fact I got so many of these right, even the ones I never read. The Gatsby one was really easy for me though. That was just an instant answer for me.
I’ve read most of these except for the Giver, Lord of the flies…honestly the dystopias named. But still, thanks for the entertainment bro! Keep it up-you never fail to make me laugh!
The movie "the giver" was quite good and I heard years ago they were gonna make a second one called "the receiver",we are now like a decade later...guess not lmao😅
The message behind Of Mice and Men isn't so much that the American dream is impossible, but the danger of believing in those ideals - and it's not the only message in the story. The other is the importance of companionship.
So much of these questions are 100% expecting you to have literally just the read the book, and most the questions only pertain to the abstract, so they're up to date and can be interpreted different from the test-givers, or like...just...specific things that happen that don't make up the over-arching plot...
Don't worry, I've read only a few of those books, and I mean 3 or 4. I didn't finish the keeper, and I choose not to read anything that is not percy jackson. Oh, and I'm also in high school.
i'm a freshman in high school, i've read maybe four of these before but i'm probably gonna have to read at least 90% of them in the next 3.5yrs so thanks for the info ig?
Really like this video! keeping track of my scores (X for wrong, O for right): 1. The Giver: X read this in middle school but forgot 2. The Catcher in the Rye: X never read 3. Lord of the Flies: O read this in middle school! 4. To Kill a Mockingbird: O read this in middle school! 5. Where the Red Fern Grows: X never read 6. Frankenstein: O read this in middle school! I remember hating it though because the English is so old. 7. Grapes of Wrath: X never read 8. The Metamorphosis: X read this but forgot D: 9. The Great Gatsby: O read this in both middle and high! 10. The Odyssey: X read this in high but im bad at mythology... 11. The Outsiders: X never read 12. Of Mice and Men: X read in middle! i got tricked... 13. Huckleberry Finn: X never read 14. Romeo and Juliet: X read in middle but the virus hit 15. Hamlet: X never read 16. 1984: X never read Total: 4/16 but tbf i only read 9 of them (my guesses for each, stop scrolling if u don't want spoilers) 1. Green 2. didn't guess, went with Daniel's 3. Conch 4. Arthur 5. didn't guess, went with Daniel's 6. Shot 7. Bonzos, randomly picked between Okies and Bonzos 8. Dung beetle 9. West Egg, almost tricked me 10. Poseidon 11. Lightning 12. Only Rich 13. didn't guess, went with Daniel's 14. Orchard 15. Lack of military power 16. O'Brien
As a Brit, not many of the books listed here are ones we have to read. Memorable ones we've studied include The Odyssey, I Am Malala, Farenheit 451, An Inspector Calls, Macbeth, Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde, A Christmas Carol and various war poems. Pretty interesting stuff actually
I guessed almost all the same guessed as Daniel for like the first 2 and a half minutes and I'm normally pretty good at guessing in multiple choice. Maybe there's a pattern for guessing multiple choice that many people just pick on and makes them 'good test takers'. Obviously wasn't working in this case, but what are the odds
2 minutes in and I'm clueless... is this how non-science nerds feel trying to answer questions on high school science, which is admittedly just as useless as high school literature? (For the record, I'm just saying that the things covered in high school aren't necessary to live in "the real world." Science, literature, math... they're all very interesting in their own ways, and they certainly merit studying (just because they're interesting! we learn the things we choose to learn not because we think they'll be useful later but simply because they interest us), but there's no need to force everyone to.)
Out of these, I only read Of Mice and Men and Romeo & Juliet. I remember also looking at Edgar Allen-Poe and a play, the name of which I can't remember. All I remember from this play was one of the characters yelling "FORTY SIX THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED TONS!" and my English teacher memed it to the point where 10 years later, I still remember it. I live in the UK for context.
As a German it's even more interesting to see what Americans read in school compared to us. Books like "The Metamorphosis" and "The Odyssey" were ones I had to read, too. And I know other classes read like "The Great Gatsby," "Lord of the Flies" and "1984."
In England it’s very varied from school to school as they only have to pick around 3 books from a wide list (a 19th century, a Shakespeare and a modern) for GCSE.
Edit: although a lot of the ones on the list are also in this video (personally, I did A Christmas Carol, Macbeth and An Inspector Calls. But also did other books on the list like Romeo and Juliet or Of Mice and Men in high schools in the years leading up to GCSE)
Yeah I agree, it seems every country and culture has different books and styles of education.
I just get jealous of american high schools (one of the very very very few things about america I ever get jealous about) because in my german class, we read a total of 8 books in what would be considered high school and a total of 3 books in english class and I just feel like I missed out on so much good reading material. I'm actually trying to catch up. By now I read 9 out of the books in the video, and only four of them for high school
We read bits of the Odyssey, but that was for World History. We did do the Great Gatsby, but none of the others. From what I remember, we did The Outsiders, The Hunger Games, The Pearl, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Go Set a Watchman, The Crucible, and Of Mice and Men
@@mackenziesapphire7554 I wouldn’t be jealous, I’m pretty sure no one truly reads these books in American high school. For instance I read as little of these books as possible to pass the classes, and I LIKED reading and was a relatively good student compared to a lot of my classmates
Scot pronouncing Circe's name as "serg" absolutely killed me
I guess the pigs were the performing animals at the Circe de Soleil
Guess he'd be the first to be turned into a pig XD
Technically it was pronounced “Cee-a-cee”
i cringed internaly
or as "Ker-kee"
3:13
I like how he shows a picture of Peter when he says "by Homer"
Gotta love how so many highschool books are downright depressing
The way he pronounced Circe’s name though 😂😂😂
Edit: for those who are confused, it’s pronounced sir-see. The “c” sounds like an “s”
Edit 2: okay fine, if the original Greek is Kirk, then he said all the other ones wrong since he said the western version. Either way something jarring happened and linguistics is complicated.
I was thinking the same thing 😂😂
I was curious to know how it was pronounced in English. I guess I still don't know lol
I thought I was the weird one. It’s cer-see right?😅
@@GummyCalico Aye, it is ^^
serk
I minored in English lit at university. My takeaway from this video is the American school system is obsessed with American literature, which the rest of the world only experiences through special episodes of sitcoms.
Well, is not like that is wrong, I'm from Chile and while we do have international literature (like Shakespeare) most of our spanish clases are national or at least south american literature. National literature also gives context of what a country was going through at the period of its writting and can leave a historic mark, so to speak...
George Orwell's 1984- English
Romeo and Juliet- English
The Odyssey- Greek
Lore of the Flies- British
Frankenstein- English
Metamorphosis- German
Hamlet- English
That is almost half of the books portrayed in the video, each of them from a nationality that isn't American.
And even then, why would it be bad to be 'obsessed' about American literature in American school systems? That's like saying Americans are 'obsessed' with American politics or American sports, it's from the place we are currently living in, of course we're gonna learn about it.
I know you’d pass piano class with flying colours!
So long as he doesn’t insert a riff into everything
Unless he has to create an original song
@Don't Read My Profile Photo Done. I didn't.
Wrong, you don't use colours, let alone flying colours, in piano classes.
@@HeriEystberg What if you have synaesthesia?
This quiz is so much harder than actual high school English was
No, it wasn't. These are standard questions.
Wow this is really all you have to do in America?
There is not a single multiple choice question on any of our English papers in the UK.
We have 2 exams for literature, both with 3 essays, 2 of them worth 20 marks (compare an extract from the text you studied to another text and explore another moment in the text that also shows a similar idea) and one worth 40 (you get a choice of two questions), and you have to memorise quotations from 3 different texts and a set of poems, and there are also two literature papers, fiction and nonfiction and you have two unseen extracts for both that are thematically linked and you have to answer questions about both and also compare them, then you have to write either a fiction or nonfiction piece worth 40 marks and that is only 2 grades out of the 10 gcses you have to do andihavemocksinoneweekplshelp
@@jesfern American education varies between states and sometimes even towns and cities.
@@jesfern there is one multiple choice question on lang. paper 2 (non-fiction), assuming you do aqa? Also good luck on your mocks and real exams, lets hope this year isn't too mean on us!
no I think this is a pretty good example of hs English. the only difference is we wouldn't go through multiple books or topics at once
I love that you make a self depreciating joke, that instantly transitions into a sponsor for therapy.
"By Homer" *proceeds to show a picture of Peter Griffin*
Ah yes, my favourite character in the Odyssey, 'Sirk' Also, I've only read one of these books for my english class (I'm from England and a lot of these are US classics whereas we do mostly Dickins and Shakespeare) WE DID READ OF MICE AND MEN THOUGH AND I GOT THAT RIGHT
If I makes you feel better, I'm an English Major and I've only (so far in the video) read The Giver (middle school), of Mice and Men (10th), Romeo and Juliet (9th). So honestly even I didn't ever read most of them.
As someone in 10th grade same
@@ked49 ye same 10th and ive only read r & j
Check out some of the other books, the ones I have read are great
Every once in a while Daniel guesses the right answer.
Based on a chance alone one would expect 4/16 on average so 5/16 would be quite likely.
In fact given N questions with c choices for each the probability of answering n questions correctly by chance is:
P(n) = NCn * (c-1)^(-n) * ((c-1)/c)^N
where NCn is the binomial coefficient N over n ( = N! / n! / (N-n)! ).
With that we get the most probable situation where 4/16 are answered correctly has probability of P(4) = 22.52 % while answering 5 question correctly has P(5) = 18.01 %.
To be fair some of the wrong answers were the right answer.
This is very cool. To me, through your videos I see that you are bright and talented. In this quiz , you show that you can roll with mistakes and don’t have to be perfect. Maybe that’s how you got so bright and talented. 💡✨
Great example for all of us. Thank you! (Also I dreamt about you last night and so looked up a video to watch today and found this! 😆)
I... feel conflicted, because as someone who never had any mandatory reading when she was younger, doing book reports sounds like something I'd enjoy doing now, but I _know_ back then I'd also be like _'UGGGGHHH NO I DON'T CARE ABOUT ANY OF THIS'_
Hard agree. I had some mandatory reading, but none of these books. Now that I'm older, and looking to become wiser and more interesting, I'd love to read a lot of these books.
it's almost like being forced to read something you're not interested isn't a good way to cultivate interest in literature, and literary analysis is way more enjoyable when you're doing it on something you like!
as someone who loves reading, like I read hundreds of books in highschool alone... book reports are poopie doodoo butter 😮
I won't say no one is allowed to like them, but you would have to actually enjoy the report itself: which is doodoo poopie butter
@@ldkmelon
No, no, I'd say Sunroses has the right idea; analysis can be fun if you're _that_ engaged by the subject. I remember I wrote a 29-page retrospective on _Sonic Forces_ purely for no-one's benefit but my own and my friends'. Because despite how awful the game was, I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I just had to get my feelings out on the matter, _somehow._
To reiterate, Sonic Forces made me write 29 pages about it. _Sonic. Forces._ And I'd do it again.
@@Meteorite_Shower now go write twenty nine pages on something that you think is a 5/10. i didn't mean to say you can't enjoy writing about something, just that being forced to write about something can ruin it when you would've otherwise enjoyed it.
It's interesting to hear that fiction doesn't stick for Daniel - I am the opposite way. I love hearing little perspective things like this!
Ficton > Real world
At least there i dont exist.
Daniel can never run out of crazy ideas to entertain us
As someone who is failing English, I’m glad I’m not alone.
I cry every practice test I do and I can't even get my first point down, you are deffo not alone (I also spelt table as tabel not long ago so ik that I'm gonna fail my GCSE's) 🤩🤩
If you can speak and communicate in some form of wrighting then you passed English
@@biolinkstudios *when you spelled writing wrong* 💀
Me fail english? That's unpossible!
@@D4wnbr1ng3r you mean impassable? Wait that is is corrtec?
Fun fact, I have in fact drunk a drink named Tequila Mockingbird 🤣
I can't believe how big your channels gotten. This vid has been posted for five minutes and there is 2K views! Keep up the good work.
I’m ashamed to say I haven’t read a lot of these, but Where The Red Fern Grows is one of my favorite books ever written. I fell in love with it when I was ten years old (I’m 15 now) and read it again last year when my dog died (RIP Tasch). I also read Of Mice and Men for the first time about a year ago. It’s fantastic. I saw the 1992 film with John Malcovich a couple days after reading the book, and was amazed at how closely it stuck to it. I mean they were practically identical.
It's funny, I first read it in school, but it wasn't assigned reading, I just read it on my own. We had a "reading" hour one year where after lunch we had to pick literally anything and read in silence for one hour. I didn't care much about reading at the time and my teacher has a mini library shelf in her classroom which was easier than going to the library, so I just grabbed that. Also where I first encountered Narnia.
I love the book of mice and men it’s definitely up there with my favourites
@@ForeverMasterless our classroom "library" is how I discovered Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, sadly I found book 2 first and read it before I knew it was book two of 3. lol
I was waiting for Fahrenheit 451 or whatever that book was called cuz I feel like that’s a staple everywhere for literature
I think Piggy's Glasses was the actual answer to the Lord of the Flies question
They both can, but the conch much more so. Only whoever is holding the conch gets to speak, so it creates some sort of structure among them instead of everyone shouting at once (order over chaos).
We were doing the Odyssey in my class recently, Circe is pronounced “sirsee…”
What I find funny is that in my high school, out of all of those, the only one we ever worked on was Of Mice and Men. I think they might have done the other ones in the more "advanced" (ap) classes, but still weird. We did things like Edgar Allan Poe, The Help and Macbeth. Even Mockingjay at one point when it came out. I read The Giver series in my own time.
3:25 the name is pronounced: sir-see
sErK 😑
Came here to say that. 😂
Serk was painful to hear.
As a Russian, I was quite surprised to guess a lot of them correctly, even though we barely touch any of the books in our school literature program. Probably just me loving fiction books, like 1984, also Soviet Russia had quite a bit of western book adaptations for TV, Huckleberry Finn being one of them. Enjoyed the video, thanks Daniel!
I could only answer questions about books I remember reading. And barely that 😅
3:36 “ Then I did a backflip. Broke the bad guys neck and saved the day”
How DARE you bring back my memories of Where the Red Fern Grows. All in all though, great video as always.
Not being a citizen of english speaking country and i still got some correct… feeling so proud XD
Good job. Most people I know wouldn’t get one right
@@ked49 by pure chance you should be getting at least a quarter of them
2:45, it’s about a human who turns into a bug without explanation
2:00 I'm the very opposite of this, I *only* care about fiction
Though I don't really know most of those books
I couldn't answer SO many of these and I have a masters in English Literature. XD I mean, I got the Giver, Catcher in The Rye but only because that one was a multiple choice, To Kill a Mockingbird, Grapes of Wrath, Metamorphosis, Odyssey, Mice and Men, Huckleberry Finn, Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet. The only ones of those I ENJOYED were Giver, Odysseus, and Hamlet. (I'm sorry, but you will never convince me "Not where he eats but where is eaten" isn't one of the funniest lines in Shakespeare). I've never read Lord of the Flies, I know the themes but that's about it, I've read Red Fern Grows but have deliberately blocked as much of it as possible from my mind. I haven't actually read Frankenstein, which surprises me now that I realize it because I've read The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Dracula, so you think I'd have just gone for Frankenstein too. I've read Gatsby but could have never named the location of the manor, and have never read The Outsiders. However - I'm not convinced on this quiz at all. No Dickens (I can't be the only person who had to suffer Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations in Highschool)? No Poe? No Doyle? No Scarlet Letter or Crucible? (Look, I hated them but they're held up as these crucial books in High School English), or The Jungle (also awful, but I guess influential...)? Lighter reads like Austen? No Bronte? (Any of the sisters, though Wuthering Heights is the one that gets pummeled in from Emily, I prefer Jane Eyre by Charlotte).... I mean, fortunately, I didn't have to read Bleak House until college so at least most high schoolers are spared that. My Shakespeare class also VOTED for Titus Andronicus to be read which I don't know what was wrong with my classmates.
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it's J. GODDAMN D. GODDAMN SALINGER
If you watched Bojack Horseman you would know that
1:19 ALL HAIL THE MAGIC CONCH!!!
5:06 it's moral corruption. The reason Hamlet is considering committing the immoral act of killing his uncle is because his uncle is a terrible king and killed Hamlet Sr who had been a good king
I Love These Types Of Videos!
Same
"the odysey by homer"
daniel: puts picture of peter griffin
Daniel at the start of the video:
Literature is important
Daniel at the end of the video:
Literature is… terrible
5:31 Winston! What a Legend!
2:23 when he says "dang" and the newspaper clipping shows up omg
Happy birthday, Daniel.
Don’t worry Dan, i didn’t get any of them right and I.. was homeschooled before high school and dropped out before my senior year. Also I haven’t went to college yet.
I got a good few of these! (I am currently reading Lord of the Flies)
I know that this vid was made 5 days ago, but I wanted to wish you a happy birthday Daniel! I really love your videos! They make me laugh so hard that I feel like I'm gonna wind up crying. Happy birthday!!!!🎈🎈🎈🎈💘
I'm Canadian and I think the only one of these that I read in high school was To Kill A Mockingbird. I read a few for my first year uni lit class though
Loved the part where Daniel did the thing
@DontReadMyProfilePhoto_1 ok
I read about 5 of these, 2 were middle school and 1 when I was 8. I remember Beowulf, Grendle and Watership Down from high-school mostly.
I read Island of the Blue Dolphns, Romeo and Juliet, Call of the Wild, Of Mice and Men, Flowers for Algernon, and Lord of the Flies, and read To Kill a Mockingbird on my own time. I've been wanting to read 1984 as well. Some of my classmates read Animal Farm, although I opted not to.
5:13 literally 1984
Like, literally
It's actually 1984
Finally the prophecy has been fulfilled
Truly 1984
We need to see the insiders!
Bro I can’t just everything he makes is somehow funny 😂
3:13, Odysseus spends an entire decade sailing home from Troy despite Poseidon tormenting and delaying him while Penelope remains faithful to him throughout
"The Odyssey. By Homer" *shows an image of Peter Griffin*
I’ve always wondered this. Also Daniels still doing better than me lol
As a Brit the only two we studied at school were Of Mice and Men and Romeo and Juliet (yes other classes or years did do Hamlet I'm sure) and the only other one I've actually read is 1984, I've not even heard of half of these!
0:13, it’s about a twelve year old boy in a colourless world who has to be taught to remember what the world was like before the current dystopia came to exist
At 3:13 when Daniel says "homer" a picture of Peter Griffin appears lol.
Best merch plug of all time tho
Did anybody else notice that at 3:14, when Daniel said “Homer”, Peter Griffin showed up?
I’m surprised Daniel even went to high school 😂
If anybody hasn't read most of these books go read them here are some of them I have read.
To Kill a Mockingbird: is a very emotional book about a Lawyer Atticus defending an Innocent black man accused of a crime.
The Outsiders: is about a young boy Ponyboy and his gang having to deal with violent Rich kids, and murders.
1984: is about a man named Winston who works to destroy history for the Dictator Big Brother eventually Winston begins to rebel against them, and becomes a enemy of the state. (Not telling you the rest if you haven't read it)
I read "The Giver" two years ago and even I didn't remember the color
In Sydney 2000 - 2007, I remember we studied The Grapes of Wrath, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, lots of Shakespeare, and then lots of English novels. I remember North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell and I actually got it as a Xmas present and read the whole thing before semester started, unaware it would be a prescribed text. We also read Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, D.H Lawrence, Charles Dickens
i have never read any of those exept "where the red fern grows"......(i'm a pjo fan so i could easily guess the answer for the Q on the Odyssey, I immediately knew it was not Calypso)
Heyyy! Im also a (huge) pjo fan and laughed so hard at that pronunciation!😂
@@tinavanderhoven7431 so did I
25% is the average score if guessed randomly. A score 60% away from the average suggest you didn't do much better than guessing randomly.
.25 + - (.25*.60) = .25 + - .15
So a score between 10% - 40% means you didn't do much better than guessing.
You got 5 out of 16 correct. So that is 31%
Ok hold up. I read Of Mice and Men in high school and the theme of the American Dream was NEVER mentioned by anyone. Not even the teachers.
What? What did they talk about, then?
From most I have talked to people's favorite book from high school (school reading list) was The Giver and most people's favorite read outside of class...is the Hobbit. My favs were Fahrenheit 451 & Shakespeare. Ugh, least favorite was Of Mice and Men...
Friend: You're so smart! You must read so many books!
Me: I can't tell you what happens in any of the 16 books mentioned. I didn't read anything that wasn't required.
I'm currently in 9th grade and my current English class just lets us pick what to read and let's us analyze it on our own. Literally every other 9th grade English class is reading the Odyssey, but we just get to read whatever we want as long as it is something that interests us
I was in advanced courses and I can honestly say the only ones out of all these that we read in my high school were Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet
I’m in 10th grade right now, of all the books discussed here, I’ve only read a handful over the school years. Romeo and Juliet, Of Mice and Men, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Odyssey to be exact. It’s interesting to see which ones were and weren’t included in my teachers’ classrooms.
Where can I subscribe to the Daily newspaper that was pictured behind Daniel when talking about the Frankenstein?? Quality journalism right there.
The fact I got so many of these right, even the ones I never read.
The Gatsby one was really easy for me though. That was just an instant answer for me.
The fact I know like two things in this entire quiz…. O-O
I’ve read most of these except for the Giver, Lord of the flies…honestly the dystopias named. But still, thanks for the entertainment bro! Keep it up-you never fail to make me laugh!
The movie "the giver" was quite good and I heard years ago they were gonna make a second one called "the receiver",we are now like a decade later...guess not lmao😅
there are like.. 3 books out. blue, the son and something else I think
@@hhill6142 never read the books yet🙂
I loved the Outsiders! It was one of my fav school books!
3:47 McQueen on the bottom left
Daniel always seems to entertain us❤😂
The message behind Of Mice and Men isn't so much that the American dream is impossible, but the danger of believing in those ideals - and it's not the only message in the story. The other is the importance of companionship.
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Daniel after the question: I only do non-fiction.
The book, based on a real story: *you speak a world of lies.*
Basically his average in my book but not average in wrting skits the man is insane
So much of these questions are 100% expecting you to have literally just the read the book, and most the questions only pertain to the abstract, so they're up to date and can be interpreted different from the test-givers, or like...just...specific things that happen that don't make up the over-arching plot...
I knew most of those books!!!
The fact that he quoted Hamlet just shows how insane his mind is. Well done, Daniel!!
5:43 Emphasize* on being Rich
It's by homer:
Shows Peter
Don't worry, I've read only a few of those books, and I mean 3 or 4. I didn't finish the keeper, and I choose not to read anything that is not percy jackson. Oh, and I'm also in high school.
@T.e.l.e.gramDanielThrasher nah, I don't think so
i'm a freshman in high school, i've read maybe four of these before but i'm probably gonna have to read at least 90% of them in the next 3.5yrs so thanks for the info ig?
"written by Homer"
*Puts an image of Peter Griffin up*
😂
Yes
Really like this video!
keeping track of my scores (X for wrong, O for right):
1. The Giver: X read this in middle school but forgot
2. The Catcher in the Rye: X never read
3. Lord of the Flies: O read this in middle school!
4. To Kill a Mockingbird: O read this in middle school!
5. Where the Red Fern Grows: X never read
6. Frankenstein: O read this in middle school! I remember hating it though because the English is so old.
7. Grapes of Wrath: X never read
8. The Metamorphosis: X read this but forgot D:
9. The Great Gatsby: O read this in both middle and high!
10. The Odyssey: X read this in high but im bad at mythology...
11. The Outsiders: X never read
12. Of Mice and Men: X read in middle! i got tricked...
13. Huckleberry Finn: X never read
14. Romeo and Juliet: X read in middle but the virus hit
15. Hamlet: X never read
16. 1984: X never read
Total: 4/16 but tbf i only read 9 of them
(my guesses for each, stop scrolling if u don't want spoilers)
1. Green
2. didn't guess, went with Daniel's
3. Conch
4. Arthur
5. didn't guess, went with Daniel's
6. Shot
7. Bonzos, randomly picked between Okies and Bonzos
8. Dung beetle
9. West Egg, almost tricked me
10. Poseidon
11. Lightning
12. Only Rich
13. didn't guess, went with Daniel's
14. Orchard
15. Lack of military power
16. O'Brien
I've only read like 2 of these books
As a Brit, not many of the books listed here are ones we have to read. Memorable ones we've studied include The Odyssey, I Am Malala, Farenheit 451, An Inspector Calls, Macbeth, Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde, A Christmas Carol and various war poems. Pretty interesting stuff actually
Indoctrination at its finest.
3:54, it implies it to be futile
I guessed almost all the same guessed as Daniel for like the first 2 and a half minutes and I'm normally pretty good at guessing in multiple choice. Maybe there's a pattern for guessing multiple choice that many people just pick on and makes them 'good test takers'. Obviously wasn't working in this case, but what are the odds
2 minutes in and I'm clueless... is this how non-science nerds feel trying to answer questions on high school science, which is admittedly just as useless as high school literature?
(For the record, I'm just saying that the things covered in high school aren't necessary to live in "the real world." Science, literature, math... they're all very interesting in their own ways, and they certainly merit studying (just because they're interesting! we learn the things we choose to learn not because we think they'll be useful later but simply because they interest us), but there's no need to force everyone to.)
Out of these, I only read Of Mice and Men and Romeo & Juliet. I remember also looking at Edgar Allen-Poe and a play, the name of which I can't remember. All I remember from this play was one of the characters yelling "FORTY SIX THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED TONS!" and my English teacher memed it to the point where 10 years later, I still remember it. I live in the UK for context.
My man did not just pronounce Cerce "Surk"