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To Kill a Mockingbird 2: More Mocking Quiz


This quiz is about books that don't have sequels...and definitely, definitely shouldn't. Identify the fictional sequels described in the quiz. Warning: Spoilers! Really terrible imagined subtitles!

A multiple-choice quiz by adams627. Estimated time: 7 mins.
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Author
adams627
Time
7 mins
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Multiple Choice
Quiz #
368,273
Updated
Dec 03 21
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10
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Question 1 of 10
1. In this sequel, we learn that the entire first novel was itself a frame story of a frame story of a frame story of a story about some guy named Lockwood, told by an English landlord renting rooms out on the Moors to unsuspecting guests. The plot thickens, however, when the landlord is forced to recant his tales for fear that ghosts will creep into unsuspecting visitors' windows at night.

What sequel could this be?
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Question 2 of 10
2. This sequel to an 1880 novel is a parable about Jesus Christ, who is tempted by the Devil into murdering his father Joseph so that he can marry the woman he loves. Except it wasn't Jesus responsible--no, it was his epileptic sibling, whom nobody suspects of the crime, even though he's really, really obviously a villain, and even confesses the crime several times over.

What fictional, immense Russian novel could this be?
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Question 3 of 10
3. This novel follows a minor character who, having recovered his tennis shoes and ready to step away from a life of party piano-playing, moves away from West Egg to get into the bond business. His life in the Valley of the Ashes comes to an abrupt halt, though, when he finds out that his wife has been cheating on him, not that he really cares at all.

What novel could this possibly be?
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Question 4 of 10
4. In this sequel to an existential classic, all the inhabitants of Oran are left mute after they realize that there's no meaning to their lives, anyways, so why bother to talk? A lone doctor tries to combat the feelings of ennui and despair in a town ravaged by 20th century philosophy.

What's the book?
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Question 5 of 10
5. In this novel, told entirely in slang to a counselor, a high school preppie explains that it's not his fault that he's pimply and eats his fingernails. It's not fair that he has to live next door to a junkie who's obsessed with the word phony! This smash hit of the year 1952 controversially introduced the word "Stradlating" into the English lexicon.

Pray tell, what fictional follow-up to a classic bildrungsroman could it be?
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Question 6 of 10
6. Shakespeare wrote sequels to a few of his histories, but surely you're familiar with this sequel to a famous tragedy! In it, we learn that Birnham Wood was actually full of Ents, who do walk to Dunsinane Castle and lay siege to it. Luckily, our hero is not afraid to get blood on his hands, and calling on the support of some witches, is able to put down the threat.

What's the play?
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Question 7 of 10
7. This 1951 novel chronicles the rebellion of the Junior Anti-Sex League, who ignite rebellion with a series of encoded messages in a Newspeak dictionary. They are aided in the unlikeliest of places by Eastasian and Eurasian allies, and by Big Sister, who is attempting to redress a wrong done by the rest of her family. Does the rebellion succeed? The novel's ending is deliberately ambiguous.

What novel could this possibly be?
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Question 8 of 10
8. In this sequel, even more exciting than the original, our heroes are faced with an even bigger challenge. Infuriated by the death of their leader, Quincey, a group of Americans come to London to seek revenge. Deprived of resources, and completely out of garlic, this book's protagonist turns to the one expert in 19th century America for dealing with the threat: Abraham Lincoln.

What's the horror sequel?
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Question 9 of 10
9. In this sequel to a play, we get a return to stage of Lucky and Pozzo, but this time, Lucky has evolved into an advanced life-form and Pozzo is turning into a patch of green goo. Our protagonists nearly manage to tie their shoes, and, at one point, it even starts raining for a little while! But then it stops, thank goodness.

What 20th-century masterpiece is this sequel?
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Question 10 of 10
10. In this 18th century sequel, we find out that, in fact, nobody from the first book died at all! Cunegonde's brother comes back to life, and, after a long speech praising Newton's fluxions and denigrating the accomplishments of a German contemporary, proves that the world really is just the best place ever. Then, everybody who perished in the auto-da-fé from the first book comes together to sing about how great the world is. Finally, the protagonist fights in a war and comes out of it thinking about how war is necessary in a world as great as this one.

Dripping with sarcasm, this book was never written, but if it did exist, what would be the title?
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1. In this sequel, we learn that the entire first novel was itself a frame story of a frame story of a frame story of a story about some guy named Lockwood, told by an English landlord renting rooms out on the Moors to unsuspecting guests. The plot thickens, however, when the landlord is forced to recant his tales for fear that ghosts will creep into unsuspecting visitors' windows at night. What sequel could this be?

Answer: Wuthering Heights 2: Even More Wuthering

Emily Bronte's novel "Wuthering Heights" intricately weaves stories-within-stories-within-stories as the book's original narrator, Mr. Lockwood, listens to some Romantic on-goings on the Moors of northern England. Nelly Dean, Lockwood's housekeeper, spins a long tale about Lockwood's neighbor, Mr. Heathcliff.

Heathcliff, in the present a real grouch, was originally a gypsy boy adopted by Mr. Earnshaw, the owner of the estate called Wuthering Heights. He falls in love as a child with Earnshaw's daughter Catherine, but Catherine grows estranged from him and marries Edgar Linton, the heir to Thrushcross Grange, instead. Heathcliff then marries Edgar's sister Isabella and winds up inheriting Wuthering Heights. Neither marriage is happy. Catherine dies in childbirth. Heathcliff schemes to get Catherine's daughter, Cathy, to marry his own son Linton, but Cathy instead marries Hareton Earnshaw, the son of Catherine's brother Hindley.

As the novel shifts to the present, Heathcliff's behavior grows more and more erratic, as he wanders in the moors in the hopes that he will see Catherine as a ghost once more. He dies and is buried next to Catherine.
2. This sequel to an 1880 novel is a parable about Jesus Christ, who is tempted by the Devil into murdering his father Joseph so that he can marry the woman he loves. Except it wasn't Jesus responsible--no, it was his epileptic sibling, whom nobody suspects of the crime, even though he's really, really obviously a villain, and even confesses the crime several times over. What fictional, immense Russian novel could this be?

Answer: The Brothers Karamazov 2: Ivan's Idea of a Novella

The reference to Jesus and the Devil in the question refers to one of the most famous passages from "The Brothers Karamazov". In a "poem in prose" titled "The Grand Inquisitor", Ivan, the intellectual brother, explains his doubt to Alexei, the religious brother. Christ comes back to Seville in the middle of the Spanish Inquisition, where the Inquisitor explains to him that the burden of freedom placed upon Man by rejecting temptation is overwhelming.

Parables aside, the plot of "The Brothers Karamazov" is essentially a mystery: who killed the brothers' father, Fyodor? Blame is immediately cast on the eldest brother, Dmitry, a hedonist who was vying against his father for the hand of Grushenka. Dmitry is arrested and tried, even though, as the audience slowly finds out, the circumstantial evidence against him is inconclusive, and the real culprit in the matter was the fourth brother, an illegitimate epileptic villain named Smerdyakov. Ivan blames himself for the crime, believing that his anti-religious philosophizing may have driven Smerdyakov to the crime.
3. This novel follows a minor character who, having recovered his tennis shoes and ready to step away from a life of party piano-playing, moves away from West Egg to get into the bond business. His life in the Valley of the Ashes comes to an abrupt halt, though, when he finds out that his wife has been cheating on him, not that he really cares at all. What novel could this possibly be?

Answer: The Great Gatsby 2: The Adventures of Klipspringer

Adding insult to injury: at the end of "The Great Gatsby", Nick Carraway is making preparations for Gatsby's funeral, when he receives a phone call from Gatsby's personal piano-playing holder-on Klipspringer, who left his tennis shoes at the mansion and could he please go get them? Yeesh.

Klipspringer, of course, was just one of hundreds of inconstant attendees at Gatsby's famous parties at the mansion in New York. Nick, Gatsby's neighbor, narrates the whole tale. Gatsby had loved Nick's cousin, Daisy Buchanan, since childhood. He purchased the house and threw the parties every Saturday evening in the hopes that Daisy, who lived just across the bay with her brutish husband Tom, would come on over.

Of course, eventually Daisy and Gatsby do meet, and sparks fly. Unfortunately, Daisy's husband isn't too happy about the situation, even though he's carrying on a blatant affair with another woman. Unfortunately for Gatsby, he winds up in the wrong car, and later, in the wrong swimming pool. Daisy runs over Tom's mistress, Gatsby gets the blame, and the mistress' husband shoots Gatsby.
4. In this sequel to an existential classic, all the inhabitants of Oran are left mute after they realize that there's no meaning to their lives, anyways, so why bother to talk? A lone doctor tries to combat the feelings of ennui and despair in a town ravaged by 20th century philosophy. What's the book?

Answer: The Plague 2: Even More Plague

Albert Camus' classic 1947 novel "The Plague" is filled with social criticism and existential philosophy. Rats begin to die on the streets throughout the French-Algerian city of Oran; soon after, patients begin to fall sick with the bubonic plague, deaths skyrocketing. Quarantine is declared. Dr. Bernard Rieux, who had sent his wife away to a sanatorium, is left alone and helpless to counteract the deadly infection.

The social criticism is slathered on in voluminous helpings. The local priest uses the plague as an opportunity to increase church attendance and improve his self-importance. Greedy businessmen take advantage of the quarantine to make a lot of money. Camus, though never a self-declared existentialist, borrows the philosophy by pointing out that all men and women, no matter social standing, are equal before the plague, and can equally die from it.
5. In this novel, told entirely in slang to a counselor, a high school preppie explains that it's not his fault that he's pimply and eats his fingernails. It's not fair that he has to live next door to a junkie who's obsessed with the word phony! This smash hit of the year 1952 controversially introduced the word "Stradlating" into the English lexicon. Pray tell, what fictional follow-up to a classic bildrungsroman could it be?

Answer: The Catcher in the Rye 2: Ackley's Confession

Much of the first part of JD Salinger's 1951 novel "The Catcher in the Rye" consists of Holden Caulfield, the book's narrator, complaining about Ackley, his neighbor at a fancy prep school. (He also has some choice words for his roommate Stradlater, who doesn't appreciate good writing when he sees it.)

Holden then runs away from Pencey Prep--not for the first time, he drops out of school--and wanders around New York City, searching for a sympathetic soul. He calls up a few old girlfriends, talks to cabbies about ducks, chats up some nuns about "Romeo and Juliet", and finally reveals his inner turmoil: a teenager unwilling and afraid to join adulthood. Holden wishes he could be a "catcher in the rye"--an image from a Robbie Burns poem about a man who "catches" children as they fall off a cliff into maturity.

Though the novel has seen its fair share of controversy, especially with regard to its language and its apparent incitement to violence of John Hinckley Jr., it's well regarded as a staple of modern American literature and read widely.
6. Shakespeare wrote sequels to a few of his histories, but surely you're familiar with this sequel to a famous tragedy! In it, we learn that Birnham Wood was actually full of Ents, who do walk to Dunsinane Castle and lay siege to it. Luckily, our hero is not afraid to get blood on his hands, and calling on the support of some witches, is able to put down the threat. What's the play?

Answer: Macbeth 2: The Return of the King

Perhaps the Bard was anticipating JRR Tolkien when, in "Macbeth", the Witches prophesy that Macbeth can only die when Birnham Wood comes to his castle. They also tell him that he can only be killed by a man "not born of woman." Unfortunately for our Scottish hero, Macduff was born in a Caesarean section, and his army had cut down some trees from the forest and brought them along. Oops.

Macbeth earned Macduff's vengeance in the first place when the general's ambition got the best of him. Under guidance from another prophecy and the even-more-ambitious glare of his wife, Macbeth kills King Duncan and is instated on the throne. Then he kills lots more people who stand in his way: Banquo, Banquo's family, and most of Macduff's family too, though Macduff gets away. Double oops.

Guilt-ridden, Lady Macbeth issues her famous "sleepwalking" scene, when she imagines blood staining her hands, and Macbeth, in his turn, speaks about "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" upon hearing of his wife's suicide. Not a good state of mind to be in when Macduff is coming to take revenge on your castle. They fight, and Macbeth loses, his head paraded on stage at the play's conclusion.
7. This 1951 novel chronicles the rebellion of the Junior Anti-Sex League, who ignite rebellion with a series of encoded messages in a Newspeak dictionary. They are aided in the unlikeliest of places by Eastasian and Eurasian allies, and by Big Sister, who is attempting to redress a wrong done by the rest of her family. Does the rebellion succeed? The novel's ending is deliberately ambiguous. What novel could this possibly be?

Answer: 1984 2: Or, 1986

In 1949 George Orwell published his terrifying view of 35 years into the future, titled "1984", so it's only logical that its sequel, "1984 2", should be set in 1986.

Not much has changed since the first installment. Telescreens, monitored cameras peeping into people's everyday lives, instill Party discipline. Food is scarce, society is heavily stratified, and any disobedient thought immediately gets its owner arrested by the Thought Police and sent to the torture chamber, Room 101 in the ironically-named Ministry of Love.

In the original novel, the Party of Oceania instills discipline in its citizens through war propaganda--the nation has been at war with Eurasia, it has always been at war with Eurasia, it has always been allied with Eastasia, and so on. Then there's Big Brother, the figurehead of the Party who may or may not actually exist. Winston, the book's protagonist, believes that hope lies with the proles (proletariat) to overthrow the Party and re-institute democracy in the futuristic year of 1984.
8. In this sequel, even more exciting than the original, our heroes are faced with an even bigger challenge. Infuriated by the death of their leader, Quincey, a group of Americans come to London to seek revenge. Deprived of resources, and completely out of garlic, this book's protagonist turns to the one expert in 19th century America for dealing with the threat: Abraham Lincoln. What's the horror sequel?

Answer: Dracula 2: The Vampire Strikes Back

Bram Stoker's "Dracula" begins with a real estate agent, Jonathan Harker, traveling to Transylvania to talk with the Count about his latest venture, a manor in London called Carfax. Unfortunately, he gets locked up in the castle and barely escapes with his life.

After those exciting events, we get treated to pages upon pages of correspondence between Lucy Westenra and Mina Murray talking about all their various suitors and isn't it so hard to pick one man when three of them love you at the same time? The boring bits do coalesce, though, when Lucy slowly transforms into a vampire after nightly visits from the Count. Harker, Mina, an expert in vampires named Abraham Van Helsing, and Lucy's three suitors then band together to stop Dracula from his reign of terror over London.

One of the suitors, Quincey Morris, hails from Texas. In the final climactic battle, he perishes. So it would only make sense that Texans would come to seek their revenge on the vampire-hunters in the sequel, right? And Seth Grahame-Smith would tell you, when it comes to American vampires, the only option you've got is: Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter.

(Apologies for the Star Wars puns!)
9. In this sequel to a play, we get a return to stage of Lucky and Pozzo, but this time, Lucky has evolved into an advanced life-form and Pozzo is turning into a patch of green goo. Our protagonists nearly manage to tie their shoes, and, at one point, it even starts raining for a little while! But then it stops, thank goodness. What 20th-century masterpiece is this sequel?

Answer: Waiting for Godot 2: Still Not Moving

Another play of nothing happening? It can only be Samuel Beckett's follow-up to "Waiting for Godot", "Waiting for Godot 2: Still Not Moving"!

In the original French-language play, two foolish young men named Vladimir and Estragon wait on stage for a mysterious man named Godot to show up. That's pretty much it.

Just kidding (kind of). The play typifies the Theater of the Absurd, a 20th century movement closely tied with existentialism. There's also some political undertones and a good deal of talk about Christianity, too. Two characters actually do join Vladimir and Estragon on stage: Pozzo, an pompous buffoon, and his slave Lucky. In the second act, Pozzo returns on stage, this time as a blind man.
10. In this 18th century sequel, we find out that, in fact, nobody from the first book died at all! Cunegonde's brother comes back to life, and, after a long speech praising Newton's fluxions and denigrating the accomplishments of a German contemporary, proves that the world really is just the best place ever. Then, everybody who perished in the auto-da-fé from the first book comes together to sing about how great the world is. Finally, the protagonist fights in a war and comes out of it thinking about how war is necessary in a world as great as this one. Dripping with sarcasm, this book was never written, but if it did exist, what would be the title?

Answer: Candide 2: Newton's Revenge

Voltaire's novella "Candide" couldn't possibly have a sequel, since there are no more conceivable bad things that could happen to the perennial optimist Candide and his lunacy-spouting teacher Pangloss. Candide gets kicked out of his home for kissing his love Cunegonde. Pangloss convinces him that, no worries, this is the "best of all possible worlds", and there's no reason to be down! Just because you get beaten to pieces by the Bulgarian army, and I've got syphilis, doesn't mean we should despair! Voltaire was specifically parodying the theodicy promulgated by German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Leibniz. Leibniz's other claim to fame was that he and Isaac Newton invented calculus.

The novella itself is darkly comical. Frequently, characters thought dead come back to life in miraculous circumstances. After Candide sees the horrors of the world first-hand, he finally starts to doubt the teachings of Pangloss and settles down, famously ending the novel by wishing to "cultivate our garden."
Source: Author adams627

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