Test Your Knowledge of Books Behind Blockbuster Screen Adaptations

There is an old and unresolved conversation between the written word and the moving image — one that asks whether a story belongs to the page that first held it or to the screen that gave it new life. The New York Times has entered that conversation with a deceptively simple quiz, inviting readers to trace the invisible lines connecting beloved novels to their film and television descendants. In doing so, it captures something true about this cultural moment: that literary adaptation has become one of the primary ways societies process and circulate their stories, and that audiences are increa