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) Peter Pan
B) Pride and Prejudice
C) Through the Looking-Glass
D) The Wizard of Oz
  • 3. In the story, which character is always late?
A) The Queen of Hearts
B) The Mad Hatter
C) The Cheshire Cat
D) The White Rabbit
  • 4. Which character teaches Alice about the strange game of croquet with flamingos?
A) The Cheshire Cat
B) The Queen of Hearts
C) The Mock Turtle
D) The Mad Hatter
  • 5. Who hosts a tea party where the Hatter and the March Hare are in attendance?
A) The Queen of Hearts
B) The White Rabbit
C) The Mad Hatter
D) The Caterpillar
  • 6. What is the Queen of Hearts' favorite phrase?
A) Off with their heads!
B) We're all mad here!
C) Let them eat cake!
D) Curiouser and curiouser!
  • 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) Playing cards
B) Tea cups
C) Roses
D) Chess pieces
  • 9. What is the original title of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?
A) Alice's Adventures Under Ground
B) Wonderland Tales
C) Through the Looking-Glass
D) The Nursery Alice
  • 10. In what year was 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' first published?
A) 1890
B) 1865
C) 1871
D) 1856
  • 11. What is the name of the girl who inspired Alice Liddell?
A) Lorina Charlotte Liddell
B) Alice Pleasance Liddell
C) Prima
D) Edith Mary Liddell
  • 12. How many wood-engraved illustrations did John Tenniel provide for the book?
A) 25
B) 50
C) 42
D) 30
  • 13. What genre is 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' considered an example of?
A) Mystery
B) Romance
C) Literary nonsense
D) Science fiction
  • 14. Who did Lewis Carroll row with on the river Isis on 4 July 1862?
A) Charles Dodgson
B) Henry Liddell
C) John Tenniel
D) The Reverend Robinson Duckworth
  • 15. How many daughters of Henry Liddell were with Carroll on the river trip?
A) Three
B) Four
C) One
D) Two
  • 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) Take more photographs
B) Sing the story to her again
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) 1871
B) 1885
C) 1890
D) 1865
  • 19. How many languages has 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' been translated into?
A) 200
B) 100
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) Along the Seine
D) Up the river Isis
  • 21. What was Alice Liddell's nickname in the book's prefatory verse?
A) Prima
B) Secunda
C) Quarta
D) Tertia
  • 22. Who did Carroll parody in his work 'Alice Gray'?
A) William Mee
B) Charles Dickens
C) Lewis Carroll himself
D) John Tenniel
  • 23. What happened to the earliest version of 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground'?
A) It became Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
B) It was illustrated by John Tenniel
C) It is lost
D) It was published in 1863
  • 24. Who suggested that Carroll should publish 'Alice'?
A) John Tenniel
B) MacDonald's family
C) Lewis Carroll himself
D) The British Library
  • 25. Who did Lewis Carroll approach for professional illustrations?
A) John Tenniel, a Punch cartoonist
B) Alice Liddell
C) George MacDonald
D) The children of George MacDonald
  • 26. Where is the only known manuscript copy of 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground' held?
A) With Alice Liddell's descendants
B) In the British Library
C) At Oxford University
D) In a private collection
  • 27. When did Carroll receive a specimen page of the print edition?
A) On 26 November 1864
B) On 2 July 1863
C) On 9 May 1863
D) In 1886
  • 28. What year did Macmillan publish a facsimile of 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground'?
A) 1875
B) 1863
C) 1864
D) 1886
  • 29. What does Alice drink that causes her to shrink?
A) From the Caterpillar's hookah
B) From the cake labelled 'Eat me'
C) From a teacup at the tea party
D) From the bottle labelled 'Drink me'
  • 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 Caucus Race
B) A croquet game
C) The Lobster Quadrille
D) A tea party
  • 32. Which character in 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' is a parody of Robert Southey's work?
A) 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat'
B) 'How Doth the Little Crocodile'
C) 'You Are Old, Father William'
D) 'The Queen of Hearts'
  • 33. Who is suggested to be represented by the Hatter?
A) Theophilus Carter
B) Benjamin Disraeli
C) John Ruskin
D) Lewis Carroll
  • 34. Which poem parodies Isaac Watts's 'Against Idleness and Mischief'?
A) 'You Are Old, Father William'
B) 'All in the golden afternoon...'
C) 'The Mouse's Tale'
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) New York, Central Park
D) Warrington
  • 36. What does Wonderland symbolize in the interpretation by Morton N. Cohen?
A) Cambridge
B) Manchester
C) London
D) Oxford
  • 37. What did the protagonist of 'Alice in Wonderland' become recognized as?
A) A minor character
B) An educational figure
C) A historical person
D) A cultural icon
  • 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) 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' by Jane Taylor
B) 'The Sluggard' by Isaac Watts
C) 'Against Idleness and Mischief' by Isaac Watts
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) Dr. Seuss
B) Roald Dahl
C) J.K. Rowling
D) Douglas Adams
  • 41. In which year did the Royal Mail issue a series of UK postage stamps featuring Alice characters?
A) 1932
B) 2015
C) 2021
D) 1866
  • 42. What is 'The Mouse's Tale' an example of?
A) A song
B) A parody of a nursery rhyme
C) An actual nursery rhyme
D) Concrete poetry
  • 43. Who is caricatured as the 'Man in White Paper'?
A) Benjamin Disraeli
B) Theophilus Carter
C) Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
D) John Ruskin
  • 44. How many illustrations did Carroll add to the manuscript?
A) 50
B) 42
C) 22
D) 37
  • 45. Who illustrated the edition of Alice that won the Kurt Maschler Award in 1999?
A) Alice Gerstenberg
B) Helen Oxenbury
C) Anthony Browne
D) E. L. Kearney
  • 46. What type of book did Lewis Carroll deny writing for Queen Victoria?
A) Another fantasy novel
B) A mathematical treatise
C) A biography
D) A children's story
  • 47. Who purchased Carroll's manuscript of 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground' at Sotheby's in 1928?
A) Martin Gardner
B) Anni Swan
C) Lewis Carroll
D) Philip Rosenbach
  • 48. Who provided illustrations for a new edition of the novel to mark Tenniel's 200th anniversary?
A) John Tenniel
B) Lewis Carroll
C) Chris Riddell
D) Harry Theaker
  • 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 Mock Turtle
B) The Dormouse
C) The Hatter
D) The White Rabbit
  • 51. What was the reaction from critics and readers to Tenniel’s illustrations?
A) They were criticized for being too simplistic.
B) The praise was unanimous.
C) They were largely ignored.
D) They received mixed reviews.
  • 52. Which illustrator provided illustrations for Alice in 1969 along with Graham Overden?
A) Peter Blake
B) Charles Pears
C) Salvador Dalí
D) Mervyn Peake
  • 53. In what year was the manuscript of 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground' presented to the British Library?
A) After 1928
B) 1890
C) 1907
D) 1960
  • 54. Who published a special edition titled 'The Annotated Alice' in 1960?
A) Mrs J. C. Gorham
B) Philip Rosenbach
C) Lewis Carroll
D) Martin Gardner
  • 55. Who translated Alice's Adventures in Wonderland into Swedish?
A) Antonie Zimmermann
B) Emily Nonnen
C) Anni Swan
D) Teodorico Pietrocòla Rossetti
  • 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) Christopher Wheeldon
B) Joseph Horovitz
C) Philip Glass
D) Gerald Barry
  • 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) Strict rules
B) Unpredictable characters
C) Gamelike social structures
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 song's fantastical imagery
C) The melody for 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds'
D) His interest in psychedelic music
  • 61. What was the sale price of Alice Liddell's own copy at auction in 2009?
A) $115,000
B) $15,400
C) Not specified
D) $1.54 million
  • 62. Where can you find the Alice in Wonderland: coloured lantern slides from 1910-1919?
A) Royal Mail
B) Indiana University Digital Library
C) Archival materials collection
D) Project Gutenberg
  • 63. Which Japanese fashion style was inspired by Alice?
A) Gothic Lolita
B) Harajuku fashion
C) Lolita fashion
D) Kawaii fashion
  • 64. 'The Queen of Hearts' in the book is what type of rhyme?
A) An actual nursery rhyme
B) A parody of 'Star of the Evening, Beautiful Star'
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) 'The Spider and the Fly' by Mary Botham Howitt
B) 'Against Idleness and Mischief' by Isaac Watts
C) 'Star of the Evening, Beautiful Star' by James M. Sayles
D) 'Speak Gently' by David Bates
  • 66. In what year was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland first published in Esperanto?
A) 1928
B) 1906
C) 1910
D) 1899
  • 67. 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat' is a parody of which nursery rhyme?
A) 'Star of the Evening, Beautiful Star'
B) 'The Sluggard'
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) 1985
B) 2006
C) 1999
D) 2014
  • 69. Who translated the French version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
A) Henri Bué
B) Antonie Zimmermann
C) Teodorico Pietrocòla Rossetti
D) Emily Nonnen
  • 70. Which publishing house sold the text blocks of the original edition with Carroll's permission?
A) Richard Clay
B) Alexander Macmillan
C) D. Appleton & Company
D) Macmillan Publishers
  • 71. Who played multiple roles in Elizabeth Swados' 'Alice in Concert'?
A) Meryl Streep
B) Debbie Allen
C) Mark Linn-Baker
D) Michael Jeter
  • 72. Who was personally selected by Lewis Carroll to play Alice in the first major production?
A) Twelve-year-old actress Phoebe Carlo
B) Meryl Streep
C) Isa Bowman
D) Olivia de Havilland
  • 73. What year did Alice Gerstenberg's stage adaptation premiere?
A) 1915
B) 1905
C) 1999
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) 1932
B) 1947
C) 1980
D) 1956
  • 76. Which country published 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' as 'Liisan seikkailut ihmemaailmassa'?
A) Finland
B) France
C) Sweden
D) Italy
  • 77. What was Tenniel dissatisfied with regarding the 1865 published version?
A) The printing quality.
B) The book's cover design.
C) The illustrations themselves.
D) The storyline.
  • 78. Which translator worked on the Italian version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
A) Emily Nonnen
B) Henri Bué
C) Teodorico Pietrocòla Rossetti
D) Antonie Zimmermann
  • 79. What is missing from Alice's recitation of Latin declensions?
A) The nominative case, mus.
B) The genitive case, muris.
C) The ablative case, mure.
D) The dative case, muri.
  • 80. What was the date on the title page of the Appleton Alice?
A) November 1865
B) 1865
C) 1866
D) December 1864
  • 81. What did Lewis Carroll request for the binding of the new edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
A) A blue binding.
B) A red binding.
C) No specific color.
D) A green binding.
  • 82. What did Queen Victoria allegedly ask Lewis Carroll after reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
A) To publish more children's books.
B) To illustrate another book.
C) To write a sequel to Alice.
D) For his next 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 was curious about its effects.
D) She trusted all labels.
  • 84. In what year did the copyright on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland expire in the UK?
A) 1915
B) 1928
C) 1960
D) 1907
  • 85. How many first edition copies of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland are known to exist?
A) 50
B) 42
C) 37
D) 22
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