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