Saturday, March 15, 2008

Novel Endings - Random Trivia Questions

To follow up on last week's quiz, let's move from the beginning to the end. Who penned these memorable closing lines and in what novels? Bonus: what is hidden among the answers?

Novel Endings Questions

  • Q1) "I'm so glad to be at home again."
  • Q2) I leave this manuscript, I do not know for whom, I no longer know what it is about: stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.
  • Q3) Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long at sea as Mr. Patel, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger.
  • Q4) "After all, tomorrow is another day."
  • Q5) Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision.
  • Q6) The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
  • Q7) Above the farm, a moon bright as butter silvers the night as Annie holds the door open for me.
  • Q8) When the long winter nights come on and the wolves follow their meat into the lower valleys, he may be seen running at the head of the pack through the pale moonlight or glimmering borealis, leaping gigantic above his fellows, his great throat a-bellow as he sings a song of the younger world, which is the song of the pack.
  • Q9) So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
  • Q10) We meet it turning the corner where Hemlock meets Oak; it is there when we walk the beach in off-season and the Atlantic in its blackness mirrors the dense packed gray of the clouds: a scandal, life like smoke rising twisted into legend.
  • Q11) But the horses didn't want it--they swerved apart; the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temples, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they issued from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want, they said in their hundred voices, "No, not yet," and the sky said, "No, not there."
  • Q12) Here's the black, wicked Witch. Ha! ha! ha!

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