Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
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  • 1. Who is the author of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?
A) Mark Twain
B) Charles Dickens
C) Jane Austen
D) Lewis Carroll
  • 2. What is the title of the sequel to 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?
A) Through the Looking-Glass
B) Pride and Prejudice
C) The Wizard of Oz
D) Peter Pan
  • 3. In the story, which character is always late?
A) The White Rabbit
B) The Mad Hatter
C) The Cheshire Cat
D) The Queen of Hearts
  • 4. Which character teaches Alice about the strange game of croquet with flamingos?
A) The Mad Hatter
B) The Cheshire Cat
C) The Mock Turtle
D) The Queen of Hearts
  • 5. Who hosts a tea party where the Hatter and the March Hare are in attendance?
A) The Queen of Hearts
B) The Mad Hatter
C) The Caterpillar
D) The White Rabbit
  • 6. What is the Queen of Hearts' favorite phrase?
A) Off with their heads!
B) We're all mad here!
C) Curiouser and curiouser!
D) Let them eat cake!
  • 7. Who is constantly grinning and can disappear and reappear at will?
A) The Queen of Hearts
B) The White Rabbit
C) The Mad Hatter
D) The Cheshire Cat
  • 8. What does the Queen of Hearts use as a hedge maze in her garden?
A) Tea cups
B) Chess pieces
C) Playing cards
D) Roses
  • 9. What is the original title of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?
A) Alice's Adventures Under Ground
B) Through the Looking-Glass
C) Wonderland Tales
D) The Nursery Alice
  • 10. In what year was 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' first published?
A) 1871
B) 1856
C) 1890
D) 1865
  • 11. What is the name of the girl who inspired Alice Liddell?
A) Lorina Charlotte Liddell
B) Alice Pleasance Liddell
C) Edith Mary Liddell
D) Prima
  • 12. How many wood-engraved illustrations did John Tenniel provide for the book?
A) 30
B) 50
C) 25
D) 42
  • 13. What genre is 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' considered an example of?
A) Mystery
B) Romance
C) Science fiction
D) Literary nonsense
  • 14. Who did Lewis Carroll row with on the river Isis on 4 July 1862?
A) The Reverend Robinson Duckworth
B) John Tenniel
C) Henry Liddell
D) Charles Dodgson
  • 15. How many daughters of Henry Liddell were with Carroll on the river trip?
A) Two
B) Four
C) One
D) Three
  • 16. What was the weather like in Oxford on 4 July 1862, according to some scholars?
A) Sunny and warm
B) Stormy
C) Cool and rather wet
D) Snowy
  • 17. What did Alice Liddell ask Carroll to do after the river trip?
A) Sing the story to her again
B) Take more photographs
C) Write down the story he told her
D) Draw a picture of the journey
  • 18. In what year was 'The Nursery Alice' published?
A) 1890
B) 1871
C) 1865
D) 1885
  • 19. How many languages has 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' been translated into?
A) 100
B) 200
C) 174
D) 150
  • 20. What was the name of the boat trip that inspired Carroll to write 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground'?
A) Down the Thames River
B) Across the Lake District
C) Up the river Isis
D) Along the Seine
  • 21. What was Alice Liddell's nickname in the book's prefatory verse?
A) Secunda
B) Tertia
C) Prima
D) Quarta
  • 22. Who did Carroll parody in his work 'Alice Gray'?
A) John Tenniel
B) Lewis Carroll himself
C) Charles Dickens
D) William Mee
  • 23. What happened to the earliest version of 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground'?
A) It was illustrated by John Tenniel
B) It is lost
C) It became Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
D) It was published in 1863
  • 24. Who suggested that Carroll should publish 'Alice'?
A) MacDonald's family
B) John Tenniel
C) Lewis Carroll himself
D) The British Library
  • 25. Who did Lewis Carroll approach for professional illustrations?
A) John Tenniel, a Punch cartoonist
B) The children of George MacDonald
C) Alice Liddell
D) George MacDonald
  • 26. Where is the only known manuscript copy of 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground' held?
A) In a private collection
B) At Oxford University
C) In the British Library
D) With Alice Liddell's descendants
  • 27. When did Carroll receive a specimen page of the print edition?
A) On 2 July 1863
B) In 1886
C) On 26 November 1864
D) On 9 May 1863
  • 28. What year did Macmillan publish a facsimile of 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground'?
A) 1886
B) 1875
C) 1863
D) 1864
  • 29. What does Alice drink that causes her to shrink?
A) From a teacup at the tea party
B) From the bottle labelled 'Drink me'
C) From the cake labelled 'Eat me'
D) From the Caterpillar's hookah
  • 30. What causes Alice to grow to an enormous size?
A) Drinking from a bottle
B) Eating the cake labelled 'Eat me'
C) Biting into the mushroom
D) Crying in her own tears
  • 31. What type of race do Alice and the animals participate in?
A) A croquet game
B) A tea party
C) The Lobster Quadrille
D) A Caucus Race
  • 32. Which character in 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' is a parody of Robert Southey's work?
A) 'How Doth the Little Crocodile'
B) 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat'
C) 'The Queen of Hearts'
D) 'You Are Old, Father William'
  • 33. Who is suggested to be represented by the Hatter?
A) John Ruskin
B) Lewis Carroll
C) Theophilus Carter
D) Benjamin Disraeli
  • 34. Which poem parodies Isaac Watts's 'Against Idleness and Mischief'?
A) 'All in the golden afternoon...'
B) 'The Mouse's Tale'
C) 'You Are Old, Father William'
D) 'How Doth the Little Crocodile'
  • 35. Which city features an Alice in Wonderland statue located in a park?
A) Adelaide, Rymill Park
B) Daresbury, Cheshire
C) Warrington
D) New York, Central Park
  • 36. What does Wonderland symbolize in the interpretation by Morton N. Cohen?
A) Oxford
B) Manchester
C) London
D) Cambridge
  • 37. What did the protagonist of 'Alice in Wonderland' become recognized as?
A) A cultural icon
B) An educational figure
C) A historical person
D) A minor character
  • 38. Which country published 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' as 'Le Avventure di Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie'?
A) Sweden
B) Italy
C) Germany
D) France
  • 39. 'Tis the Voice of the Lobster' is a parody of which work?
A) 'The Sluggard' by Isaac Watts
B) 'Against Idleness and Mischief' by Isaac Watts
C) 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' by Jane Taylor
D) 'Star of the Evening, Beautiful Star' by James M. Sayles
  • 40. Which author's work does Joe Sommerlad suggest owes a debt to the 'Drink Me' episode in Alice?
A) J.K. Rowling
B) Douglas Adams
C) Roald Dahl
D) Dr. Seuss
  • 41. In which year did the Royal Mail issue a series of UK postage stamps featuring Alice characters?
A) 1932
B) 2021
C) 2015
D) 1866
  • 42. What is 'The Mouse's Tale' an example of?
A) An actual nursery rhyme
B) A song
C) A parody of a nursery rhyme
D) Concrete poetry
  • 43. Who is caricatured as the 'Man in White Paper'?
A) Theophilus Carter
B) Benjamin Disraeli
C) John Ruskin
D) Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
  • 44. How many illustrations did Carroll add to the manuscript?
A) 22
B) 42
C) 50
D) 37
  • 45. Who illustrated the edition of Alice that won the Kurt Maschler Award in 1999?
A) Anthony Browne
B) Alice Gerstenberg
C) Helen Oxenbury
D) E. L. Kearney
  • 46. What type of book did Lewis Carroll deny writing for Queen Victoria?
A) A biography
B) A mathematical treatise
C) A children's story
D) Another fantasy novel
  • 47. Who purchased Carroll's manuscript of 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground' at Sotheby's in 1928?
A) Martin Gardner
B) Lewis Carroll
C) Anni Swan
D) Philip Rosenbach
  • 48. Who provided illustrations for a new edition of the novel to mark Tenniel's 200th anniversary?
A) John Tenniel
B) Harry Theaker
C) Lewis Carroll
D) Chris Riddell
  • 49. In which year was 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' first published in German?
A) 1869
B) 1872
C) 1871
D) 1886
  • 50. Which character refers to the Liddell sisters as Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie?
A) The Hatter
B) The Dormouse
C) The Mock Turtle
D) The White Rabbit
  • 51. What was the reaction from critics and readers to Tenniel’s illustrations?
A) They were largely ignored.
B) The praise was unanimous.
C) They received mixed reviews.
D) They were criticized for being too simplistic.
  • 52. Which illustrator provided illustrations for Alice in 1969 along with Graham Overden?
A) Peter Blake
B) Salvador Dalí
C) Charles Pears
D) Mervyn Peake
  • 53. In what year was the manuscript of 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground' presented to the British Library?
A) 1907
B) 1890
C) 1960
D) After 1928
  • 54. Who published a special edition titled 'The Annotated Alice' in 1960?
A) Lewis Carroll
B) Philip Rosenbach
C) Mrs J. C. Gorham
D) Martin Gardner
  • 55. Who translated Alice's Adventures in Wonderland into Swedish?
A) Anni Swan
B) Emily Nonnen
C) Teodorico Pietrocòla Rossetti
D) Antonie Zimmermann
  • 56. Which composer released songs from the 1992 musical 'Alice' as an album?
A) John Lennon
B) Tom Waits
C) Paul Schmidt
D) Kathleen Brennan
  • 57. Who composed an Alice-themed ballet for the London Festival Ballet in 1953?
A) Christopher Wheeldon
B) Gerald Barry
C) Philip Glass
D) Joseph Horovitz
  • 58. Which Argentine prog-rock band used Alice as a metaphor?
A) Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
B) Enanitos Verdes
C) Soda Stereo
D) Seru Giran
  • 59. What does Daniel Bivona suggest characterizes Alice in Wonderland?
A) Unpredictable characters
B) Gamelike social structures
C) Strict rules
D) Chaotic environments
  • 60. What did John Lennon attribute to his reading of Carroll's books?
A) The decision to join The Beatles
B) The melody for 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds'
C) The song's fantastical imagery
D) His interest in psychedelic music
  • 61. What was the sale price of Alice Liddell's own copy at auction in 2009?
A) $15,400
B) Not specified
C) $1.54 million
D) $115,000
  • 62. Where can you find the Alice in Wonderland: coloured lantern slides from 1910-1919?
A) Royal Mail
B) Project Gutenberg
C) Archival materials collection
D) Indiana University Digital Library
  • 63. Which Japanese fashion style was inspired by Alice?
A) Harajuku fashion
B) Kawaii fashion
C) Lolita fashion
D) Gothic Lolita
  • 64. 'The Queen of Hearts' in the book is what type of rhyme?
A) An actual nursery rhyme
B) A parody of 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'
C) A parody of 'Star of the Evening, Beautiful Star'
D) A parody of 'The Spider and the Fly'
  • 65. 'Speak roughly to your little boy...' is a parody of which work?
A) 'The Spider and the Fly' by Mary Botham Howitt
B) 'Speak Gently' by David Bates
C) 'Against Idleness and Mischief' by Isaac Watts
D) 'Star of the Evening, Beautiful Star' by James M. Sayles
  • 66. In what year was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland first published in Esperanto?
A) 1928
B) 1899
C) 1910
D) 1906
  • 67. 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat' is a parody of which nursery rhyme?
A) 'The Sluggard'
B) 'Star of the Evening, Beautiful Star'
C) 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'
D) 'Against Idleness and Mischief'
  • 68. In what year was 'Alice in Wonderland' named among the icons of England?
A) 2006
B) 1985
C) 2014
D) 1999
  • 69. Who translated the French version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
A) Antonie Zimmermann
B) Emily Nonnen
C) Henri Bué
D) Teodorico Pietrocòla Rossetti
  • 70. Which publishing house sold the text blocks of the original edition with Carroll's permission?
A) D. Appleton & Company
B) Macmillan Publishers
C) Alexander Macmillan
D) Richard Clay
  • 71. Who played multiple roles in Elizabeth Swados' 'Alice in Concert'?
A) Debbie Allen
B) Michael Jeter
C) Mark Linn-Baker
D) Meryl Streep
  • 72. Who was personally selected by Lewis Carroll to play Alice in the first major production?
A) Twelve-year-old actress Phoebe Carlo
B) Olivia de Havilland
C) Isa Bowman
D) Meryl Streep
  • 73. What year did Alice Gerstenberg's stage adaptation premiere?
A) 1905
B) 1999
C) 1915
D) 1928
  • 74. Which character is associated with a caricature resembling William Ewart Gladstone?
A) The Unicorn
B) The Dodo
C) The Hatter
D) The Mock Turtle
  • 75. In what year did Eva Le Gallienne's stage adaptation of the Alice books premiere?
A) 1980
B) 1956
C) 1932
D) 1947
  • 76. Which country published 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' as 'Liisan seikkailut ihmemaailmassa'?
A) France
B) Finland
C) Sweden
D) Italy
  • 77. What was Tenniel dissatisfied with regarding the 1865 published version?
A) The printing quality.
B) The illustrations themselves.
C) The storyline.
D) The book's cover design.
  • 78. Which translator worked on the Italian version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
A) Henri Bué
B) Antonie Zimmermann
C) Teodorico Pietrocòla Rossetti
D) Emily Nonnen
  • 79. What is missing from Alice's recitation of Latin declensions?
A) The nominative case, mus.
B) The ablative case, mure.
C) The genitive case, muris.
D) The dative case, muri.
  • 80. What was the date on the title page of the Appleton Alice?
A) 1866
B) November 1865
C) December 1864
D) 1865
  • 81. What did Lewis Carroll request for the binding of the new edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
A) A blue binding.
B) No specific color.
C) A green binding.
D) A red binding.
  • 82. What did Queen Victoria allegedly ask Lewis Carroll after reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
A) For his next book.
B) To publish more children's books.
C) To write a sequel to Alice.
D) To illustrate another book.
  • 83. Why did Alice trust the instructions on the bottle labeled 'drink me'?
A) She recalled that children who do not follow rules often meet terrible fates.
B) She wanted to grow smaller.
C) She trusted all labels.
D) She was curious about its effects.
  • 84. In what year did the copyright on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland expire in the UK?
A) 1960
B) 1915
C) 1907
D) 1928
  • 85. How many first edition copies of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland are known to exist?
A) 22
B) 50
C) 37
D) 42
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