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Literary Sequels

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Literary Sequels game quiz
"When a novel is a success, the author often likes to follow it up with 'more of the same'. Can you answer these questions on sequels in 19th and 20th century literature?"

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1. What is the title of the first sequel to 'The Three Musketeers', by Alexandre Dumas the elder?
    'The Count of Monte Cristo'
    'The Queen's Necklace'
    'The Vicomte de Bragelonne'
    'Twenty Years After'


2. 'Tom Brown's Schooldays', by Thomas Hughes, is one of the best known British school stories. What is its sequel?
    'Midshipman Brown'
    'Parson Brown'
    'Tom Brown at Cambridge'
    'Tom Brown at Oxford'


3. The sequel to Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' is called 'Through the __________________'. Can you complete the title?
    Enchanted Forest
    Magic Mirror
    Looking Glass
    Green Door


4. Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen first appear in D. H. Lawrence's 'The Rainbow'. In which of his novels is their story continued?
    'Lady Chatterley's Lover'
    'The Lost Girl'
    'Sons and Lovers'
    'Women in Love'


5. The first novel in Evelyn Waugh's 'Sword of Honour' trilogy is 'Men at Arms'. What is the title of the second?
    'Decline and Fall'
    'Put Out More Flags'
    'Officers and Gentlemen'
    'Unconditional Surrender'


6. John Braine's third novel was a sequel to his best-seller 'Room at the Top'. What was its title?
    'Man at the Top'
    'Life at the Top'
    'It's Tough at the Top'
    'Back to the Bottom'


7. 'Difficulties with Girls', by Kingsley Amis, deals with the married life of Patrick and Jenny Standish. It is a sequel to which of his novels?
    'Girl, 20'
    'Lucky Jim'
    'That Uncertain Feeling'
    'Take A Girl Like You'


8. Not all sequels are written by the author of the original work. 'Scarlett' by Alexandra Ripley, published in 1991, is a sequel to which novel published in 1936?
    Answer: (Four Words)


9. In 1993 Susan Hill produced a sequel to Daphne Du Maurier's 'Rebecca'. What was it called?
    'Mrs de Winter'
    'Manderley Revisited'
    'Rebecca's Tale'
    'Rebecca's Daughter'


10. Tom Sharpe's 'Grantchester Grind' is set in a Cambridge college whose Master is a former college servant. To which of his earlier novels is it a sequel?
    'Blott on the Landscape'
    'The Great Pursuit'
    'Wilt'
    'Porterhouse Blue'


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Compiled Jun 28 12