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Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
Contributed by: Holloway
  • 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) The Wizard of Oz
C) Peter Pan
D) Through the Looking-Glass
  • 3. In the story, which character is always late?
A) The Queen of Hearts
B) The Mad Hatter
C) The White Rabbit
D) The Cheshire Cat
  • 4. Which character teaches Alice about the strange game of croquet with flamingos?
A) The Mad Hatter
B) The Cheshire Cat
C) The Queen of Hearts
D) The Mock Turtle
  • 5. Who hosts a tea party where the Hatter and the March Hare are in attendance?
A) The Mad Hatter
B) The Queen of Hearts
C) The White Rabbit
D) The Caterpillar
  • 6. What is the Queen of Hearts' favorite phrase?
A) Curiouser and curiouser!
B) We're all mad here!
C) Let them eat cake!
D) Off with their heads!
  • 7. Who is constantly grinning and can disappear and reappear at will?
A) The Queen of Hearts
B) The White Rabbit
C) The Cheshire Cat
D) The Mad Hatter
  • 8. What does the Queen of Hearts use as a hedge maze in her garden?
A) Roses
B) Tea cups
C) Chess pieces
D) Playing cards
  • 9. What is the original title of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?
A) The Nursery Alice
B) Through the Looking-Glass
C) Wonderland Tales
D) Alice's Adventures Under Ground
  • 10. In what year was 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' first published?
A) 1856
B) 1890
C) 1865
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) 30
B) 50
C) 25
D) 42
  • 13. What genre is 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' considered an example of?
A) Mystery
B) Literary nonsense
C) Science fiction
D) Romance
  • 14. Who did Lewis Carroll row with on the river Isis on 4 July 1862?
A) The Reverend Robinson Duckworth
B) Charles Dodgson
C) John Tenniel
D) Henry Liddell
  • 15. How many daughters of Henry Liddell were with Carroll on the river trip?
A) One
B) Two
C) Three
D) Four
  • 16. What was the weather like in Oxford on 4 July 1862, according to some scholars?
A) Cool and rather wet
B) Snowy
C) Stormy
D) Sunny and warm
  • 17. What did Alice Liddell ask Carroll to do after the river trip?
A) Draw a picture of the journey
B) Take more photographs
C) Write down the story he told her
D) Sing the story to her again
  • 18. In what year was 'The Nursery Alice' published?
A) 1885
B) 1871
C) 1865
D) 1890
  • 19. How many languages has 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' been translated into?
A) 174
B) 200
C) 100
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) Quarta
B) Tertia
C) Secunda
D) Prima
  • 22. Who did Carroll parody in his work 'Alice Gray'?
A) Charles Dickens
B) John Tenniel
C) Lewis Carroll himself
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 was published in 1863
C) It is lost
D) It became Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  • 24. Who suggested that Carroll should publish 'Alice'?
A) MacDonald's family
B) Lewis Carroll himself
C) John Tenniel
D) The British Library
  • 25. Who did Lewis Carroll approach for professional illustrations?
A) The children of George MacDonald
B) Alice Liddell
C) John Tenniel, a Punch cartoonist
D) 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 a private collection
C) At Oxford University
D) In the British Library
  • 27. When did Carroll receive a specimen page of the print edition?
A) On 9 May 1863
B) In 1886
C) On 2 July 1863
D) On 26 November 1864
  • 28. What year did Macmillan publish a facsimile of 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground'?
A) 1863
B) 1864
C) 1875
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 the bottle labelled 'Drink me'
D) From a teacup at the tea party
  • 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) The Lobster Quadrille
B) A Caucus Race
C) A tea party
D) A croquet game
  • 32. Which character in 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' is a parody of Robert Southey's work?
A) 'You Are Old, Father William'
B) 'How Doth the Little Crocodile'
C) 'The Queen of Hearts'
D) 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat'
  • 33. Who is suggested to be represented by the Hatter?
A) Theophilus Carter
B) Benjamin Disraeli
C) Lewis Carroll
D) John Ruskin
  • 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. 'The Queen of Hearts' in the book is what type of rhyme?
A) A parody of 'Star of the Evening, Beautiful Star'
B) A parody of 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'
C) An actual nursery rhyme
D) A parody of 'The Spider and the Fly'
  • 36. Who is caricatured as the 'Man in White Paper'?
A) Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
B) Theophilus Carter
C) John Ruskin
D) Benjamin Disraeli
  • 37. 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat' is a parody of which nursery rhyme?
A) 'Against Idleness and Mischief'
B) 'Star of the Evening, Beautiful Star'
C) 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'
D) 'The Sluggard'
  • 38. What is 'The Mouse's Tale' an example of?
A) An actual nursery rhyme
B) Concrete poetry
C) A song
D) A parody of a nursery rhyme
  • 39. Which character refers to the Liddell sisters as Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie?
A) The White Rabbit
B) The Mock Turtle
C) The Dormouse
D) The Hatter
  • 40. 'Speak roughly to your little boy...' 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) 'Speak Gently' by David Bates
D) 'The Spider and the Fly' by Mary Botham Howitt
  • 41. 'Tis the Voice of the Lobster' is a parody of which work?
A) 'Star of the Evening, Beautiful Star' by James M. Sayles
B) 'Against Idleness and Mischief' by Isaac Watts
C) 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' by Jane Taylor
D) 'The Sluggard' by Isaac Watts
  • 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) Cambridge
B) Manchester
C) Oxford
D) London
  • 44. What is missing from Alice's recitation of Latin declensions?
A) The genitive case, muris.
B) The dative case, muri.
C) The ablative case, mure.
D) The nominative case, mus.
  • 45. What does Daniel Bivona suggest characterizes Alice in Wonderland?
A) Unpredictable characters
B) Gamelike social structures
C) Chaotic environments
D) Strict rules
  • 46. 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 was curious about its effects.
C) She wanted to grow smaller.
D) She trusted all labels.
  • 47. How many illustrations did Carroll add to the manuscript?
A) 22
B) 37
C) 50
D) 42
  • 48. How many first edition copies of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland are known to exist?
A) 37
B) 42
C) 22
D) 50
  • 49. What was Tenniel dissatisfied with regarding the 1865 published version?
A) The storyline.
B) The illustrations themselves.
C) The printing quality.
D) The book's cover design.
  • 50. Who provided illustrations for a new edition of the novel to mark Tenniel's 200th anniversary?
A) John Tenniel
B) Chris Riddell
C) Harry Theaker
D) Lewis Carroll
  • 51. Which illustrator provided illustrations for Alice in 1969 along with Graham Overden?
A) Salvador Dalí
B) Peter Blake
C) Charles Pears
D) Mervyn Peake
  • 52. 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.
  • 53. What did Lewis Carroll request for the binding of the new edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
A) A green binding.
B) A blue binding.
C) A red binding.
D) No specific color.
  • 54. What did Queen Victoria allegedly ask Lewis Carroll after reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
A) To publish more children's books.
B) To write a sequel to Alice.
C) To illustrate another book.
D) For his next book.
  • 55. What type of book did Lewis Carroll deny writing for Queen Victoria?
A) A biography
B) A children's story
C) A mathematical treatise
D) Another fantasy novel
  • 56. Which publishing house sold the text blocks of the original edition with Carroll's permission?
A) D. Appleton & Company
B) Richard Clay
C) Macmillan Publishers
D) Alexander Macmillan
  • 57. What was the date on the title page of the Appleton Alice?
A) December 1864
B) November 1865
C) 1866
D) 1865
  • 58. In which year was 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' first published in German?
A) 1886
B) 1869
C) 1872
D) 1871
  • 59. Who translated the French version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
A) Antonie Zimmermann
B) Henri Bué
C) Teodorico Pietrocòla Rossetti
D) Emily Nonnen
  • 60. Which country published 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' as 'Liisan seikkailut ihmemaailmassa'?
A) Finland
B) France
C) Sweden
D) Italy
  • 61. In what year did the copyright on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland expire in the UK?
A) 1907
B) 1915
C) 1928
D) 1960
  • 62. Who purchased Carroll's manuscript of 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground' at Sotheby's in 1928?
A) Lewis Carroll
B) Philip Rosenbach
C) Martin Gardner
D) Anni Swan
  • 63. 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
  • 64. In what year was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland first published in Esperanto?
A) 1906
B) 1899
C) 1928
D) 1910
  • 65. Who illustrated the edition of Alice that won the Kurt Maschler Award in 1999?
A) Helen Oxenbury
B) E. L. Kearney
C) Anthony Browne
D) Alice Gerstenberg
  • 66. 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
  • 67. Who published a special edition titled 'The Annotated Alice' in 1960?
A) Philip Rosenbach
B) Martin Gardner
C) Lewis Carroll
D) Mrs J. C. Gorham
  • 68. 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
  • 69. 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
  • 70. Who translated Alice's Adventures in Wonderland into Swedish?
A) Teodorico Pietrocòla Rossetti
B) Anni Swan
C) Antonie Zimmermann
D) Emily Nonnen
  • 71. What year did Alice Gerstenberg's stage adaptation premiere?
A) 1905
B) 1928
C) 1999
D) 1915
  • 72. Which author's work does Joe Sommerlad suggest owes a debt to the 'Drink Me' episode in Alice?
A) J.K. Rowling
B) Roald Dahl
C) Douglas Adams
D) Dr. Seuss
  • 73. In what year was 'Alice in Wonderland' named among the icons of England?
A) 1985
B) 1999
C) 2006
D) 2014
  • 74. 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
  • 75. 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) Meryl Streep
D) Isa Bowman
  • 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 decision to join The Beatles
C) The song's fantastical imagery
D) His interest in psychedelic music
  • 77. Which Argentine prog-rock band used Alice as a metaphor?
A) Seru Giran
B) Enanitos Verdes
C) Soda Stereo
D) Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
  • 78. Who composed an Alice-themed ballet for the London Festival Ballet in 1953?
A) Joseph Horovitz
B) Gerald Barry
C) Philip Glass
D) Christopher Wheeldon
  • 79. Which composer released songs from the 1992 musical 'Alice' as an album?
A) Kathleen Brennan
B) Paul Schmidt
C) Tom Waits
D) John Lennon
  • 80. In what year did Eva Le Gallienne's stage adaptation of the Alice books premiere?
A) 1932
B) 1947
C) 1956
D) 1980
  • 81. Who played multiple roles in Elizabeth Swados' 'Alice in Concert'?
A) Mark Linn-Baker
B) Debbie Allen
C) Michael Jeter
D) Meryl Streep
  • 82. Which Japanese fashion style was inspired by Alice?
A) Gothic Lolita
B) Lolita fashion
C) Harajuku fashion
D) Kawaii fashion
  • 83. 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
  • 84. In which year did the Royal Mail issue a series of UK postage stamps featuring Alice characters?
A) 2021
B) 2015
C) 1932
D) 1866
  • 85. Where can you find the Alice in Wonderland: coloured lantern slides from 1910-1919?
A) Project Gutenberg
B) Archival materials collection
C) Indiana University Digital Library
D) Royal Mail
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