First, thank you to everyone who stopped by to play the quiz.  I always enjoy putting them together, so I hope others get some enjoyment from reading them!

 So, without further ado, here are the answers:

1.  “Bruce Herrod is now presumed dead, the twelfth casualty of the season.”

This is the last line from Jon Krakauer's harrowing first-hand account of the tragic 1996 climbing season on Mt Everest.  It's the aptly named Into Thin Air.   It is replete with pathos, adventure, and survivor's guilt.

 2.  “He rode with the sun coppering his face and the red wind blowing out of the west across the evening land and the small desert birds flew chittering among the dry bracken and horse and rider and horse passed on and their long shadows passed in tandem like the shadow of a single being.  Passed and paled into the darkening land, the world to come.”

In an earlier quiz, I included the opening sentence of Cormac MacCarthy's The Road.  On this quiz, I am providing the closing sentences of the first book of his "Border Trilogy".  This is the end of All the Pretty Horses.  It was also made into a film that I enjoyed more than the critics, starring Penelope Cruz (miscast due to her age, my one complaint about the film) and Matt Damon.

3.  “It’s funny.  Don’t ever tell anybody anything.  If you do, you start missing everybody.”

This is the closing sentence from a book I included in a previous quiz.  It is the voice of Holden Caufield, in The Catcher in the Rye.

 4.  “The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope.  Nor should we now seek to define precisely the exact terms of ultimate union.”

Probably written just as the United States was about to enter World War II, these are the words of Winston Churchill, anticipating the great alliance of English speaking peoples that would work together to defeat Hitler and later confront the Soviet Union.  These are the concluding sentences from his History of the English Speaking Peoples, which was finally published after World War II, when the author was in his 80's.

5.  “There was a loud blast as of many trumpets!  There was a discordant hum of human voices!  There was a harsh grating as of a thousand thunders!  The fiery walls rushed back!  An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss.  It was that of General Lasalle.  The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies.  The French army had entered Toledo.”

In the last quiz, I included my favorite short story from the creater of that genre.  The story on the previous quiz was Edgar Allen Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado".  The quote above is the final paragraph of his "The Pit and the Pendulum", when the story's protagonist is rescued just in the nick of time by the revolutionary armies of Napoleon.

6.  “On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up at last.  It was the devious cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.

“FINIS”

This is one of the entries that were not part of an earlier quiz, or whose author was not likewise featured before.  This is the last line of Moby Dick, as Ishmael is rescued, the lone survivor of the Pequod.

7.  “‘Come!’ the voice booms, but commanding me now:  Come, My son!  I turn in surrender.

“Surely I come quickly.  Amen.

 “Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

 “Oh how bright and fair the morning star…”

 On my first quiz, I included the opening sentence from William Styron's Sophie's Choice. Shown here are the closing lines from his earlier work, The Confessions of Nat Turner.

8.  “In a moment she felt quieter.  She put his hand on the table and stroked his fingers with hers.  After all, he was only a boy.  She saw that the collar of his shirt was wrinkled under his jacket.

“‘Never you mind, honey,’ she said quietly, reaching under the jacket and carefully straightening out the collar, ‘Honey, never you mind…’”

These are the words spoken by the character Ruth at the close of Larry McMurtry's The Last Picture Show.  She is talking to Sonny, shortly after the simpleminded Billy has been hit and killed by a truck on the main street of town. In the wonderful film version of the story, Ruth was played by Cloris Leachman, and Sonny by Timothy Bottoms.

9.  “The sun was now right down upon the mountain top, and the red gleams fell upon my face, so that it was bathed in rosy light.  With one impulse the men sank on their knees and a deep and earnest ‘Amen’ broke from all as their eyes followed the pointing of his finger.  The dying man spoke: --

“‘Now God be thanked that all has not been in vain!  See!  The snow is not more stainless than her forehead!  The curse has passed away!'

“And, to our bitter grief, with a smile and in silence, he died, a gallant gentleman.”

This is the other inclusion whose author was not previously featured.  The red imagery in the first paragraph shown here is perfect for this story.  It is from the final entry of Mina Harker's journal in Dracula, describing the death of Mr. Morris, the Texan who had come to England to court the tragic Lucy, Mina's good friend who succumbed to Dracula's evil charms.

10.  “When Margaret grows up she will have a daughter, who is to be Peter’s mother in turn; and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.”

The very first entry in the initial "Name That Book" quiz was the opening line from Peter Pan.  Quoted here is the final sentence of the same book.

That's it for this month's "Name That Book" quiz.  If you have any ideas for a future installment, let me know!