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Closing Lines (books)

  • Question of

    ‘It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known?’

    • The Count of Monte Cristo
    • Les Miserables
    • A Tale of Two Cities
  • Question of

    Which adventure ends with, ‘I’m so glad to be home again’.

    • The Hobbit
    • The Wizard of Oz
    • Robinson Crusoe
  • Question of

    What ‘concludes’ with a lenghthy, and virtually unpunctuated, soliloquy?

    • The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
    • Midnight’s Children – Salmon Rushdie
    • Ulysses – James Joyce
  • Question of

    Who is, ‘haunted by humans’?

    • The Book Thief
    • The Kite Runner
    • The Cellist of Sarajevo
  • Question of

    ‘My husband remained there some time after me to settle our affairs, and at first I had intended to go back to him, but at his desire I altered that resolution, and he is come over to England also, where we resolve to spend the remainder of our years in sincere penitence for the wicked lives we have lived’, were whose finishing words?

    • Moll Flanders
    • Lorna Doone
    • Mrs Dalloway
  • Question of

    What French words end Françoise Sagan’s most famous title?

    • Au Revoir Tristesse
    • Bonjour Tristesse
    • C’est La Vie Tristesse
  • Question of

    Who was, ‘soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance’?

    • Captain Ahab
    • Frankenstein
    • The Old Man and the Sea
  • Question of

    What proved a problem for Yukiko Makioka on the train to Tokyo?

    • Her Pet Rat
    • Her Smallpox
    • Her Diarrhoea
  • Question of

    ‘The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the utmost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky – seemed to lead into the…?

    • heart of an immense darkness.
    • heart of the matter.
    • Sunday at the pool in Kigali.
  • Question of

    ‘That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended’.

    • Crime & Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
    • Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austen
    • The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

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