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