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