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Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) - Quiz
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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) The Wizard of Oz
C) Through the Looking-Glass
D) Pride and Prejudice
  • 3. In the story, which character is always late?
A) The Queen of Hearts
B) The White Rabbit
C) The Mad Hatter
D) The Cheshire Cat
  • 4. Which character teaches Alice about the strange game of croquet with flamingos?
A) The Mad Hatter
B) The Mock Turtle
C) The Queen of Hearts
D) The Cheshire Cat
  • 5. Who hosts a tea party where the Hatter and the March Hare are in attendance?
A) The White Rabbit
B) The Mad Hatter
C) The Caterpillar
D) The Queen of Hearts
  • 6. What is the Queen of Hearts' favorite phrase?
A) Let them eat cake!
B) We're all mad here!
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 White Rabbit
C) The Queen of Hearts
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) Playing cards
D) Chess pieces
  • 9. What is the original title of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?
A) Through the Looking-Glass
B) The Nursery Alice
C) Alice's Adventures Under Ground
D) Wonderland Tales
  • 10. In what year was 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' first published?
A) 1890
B) 1865
C) 1856
D) 1871
  • 11. What is the name of the girl who inspired Alice Liddell?
A) Lorina Charlotte Liddell
B) Prima
C) Edith Mary Liddell
D) Alice Pleasance Liddell
  • 12. How many wood-engraved illustrations did John Tenniel provide for the book?
A) 30
B) 25
C) 50
D) 42
  • 13. What genre is 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' considered an example of?
A) Literary nonsense
B) Romance
C) Science fiction
D) Mystery
  • 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) Sunny and warm
B) Cool and rather wet
C) Snowy
D) Stormy
  • 17. What did Alice Liddell ask Carroll to do after the river trip?
A) Sing the story to her again
B) Take more photographs
C) Draw a picture of the journey
D) Write down the story he told her
  • 18. In what year was 'The Nursery Alice' published?
A) 1865
B) 1885
C) 1871
D) 1890
  • 19. How many languages has 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' been translated into?
A) 150
B) 174
C) 200
D) 100
  • 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) Along the Seine
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) Tertia
C) Secunda
D) Quarta
  • 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 was published in 1863
B) It was illustrated by John Tenniel
C) It is lost
D) It became Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  • 24. Who suggested that Carroll should publish 'Alice'?
A) The British Library
B) MacDonald's family
C) Lewis Carroll himself
D) John Tenniel
  • 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) With Alice Liddell's descendants
B) In a private collection
C) In the British Library
D) At Oxford University
  • 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) 1886
C) 1863
D) 1864
  • 29. What does Alice drink that causes her to shrink?
A) From the bottle labelled 'Drink me'
B) From a teacup at the tea party
C) From the cake labelled 'Eat me'
D) From the Caterpillar's hookah
  • 30. What causes Alice to grow to an enormous size?
A) Eating the cake labelled 'Eat me'
B) Drinking from a bottle
C) Crying in her own tears
D) Biting into the mushroom
  • 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) 'You Are Old, Father William'
C) 'How Doth the Little Crocodile'
D) 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat'
  • 33. Who is suggested to be represented by the Hatter?
A) Theophilus Carter
B) John Ruskin
C) Lewis Carroll
D) Benjamin Disraeli
  • 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. Which city features an Alice in Wonderland statue located in a park?
A) Daresbury, Cheshire
B) Adelaide, Rymill Park
C) New York, Central Park
D) Warrington
  • 36. What does Wonderland symbolize in the interpretation by Morton N. Cohen?
A) Oxford
B) Cambridge
C) Manchester
D) London
  • 37. What did the protagonist of 'Alice in Wonderland' become recognized as?
A) A minor character
B) An educational figure
C) A cultural icon
D) A historical person
  • 38. Which country published 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' as 'Le Avventure di Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie'?
A) Sweden
B) France
C) Italy
D) Germany
  • 39. 'Tis the Voice of the Lobster' is a parody of which work?
A) 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' by Jane Taylor
B) 'Star of the Evening, Beautiful Star' by James M. Sayles
C) 'Against Idleness and Mischief' by Isaac Watts
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) Douglas Adams
B) J.K. Rowling
C) Dr. Seuss
D) Roald Dahl
  • 41. In which year did the Royal Mail issue a series of UK postage stamps featuring Alice characters?
A) 2015
B) 2021
C) 1932
D) 1866
  • 42. What is 'The Mouse's Tale' an example of?
A) Concrete poetry
B) A song
C) A parody of a nursery rhyme
D) An actual nursery rhyme
  • 43. Who is caricatured as the 'Man in White Paper'?
A) John Ruskin
B) Benjamin Disraeli
C) Theophilus Carter
D) Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
  • 44. How many illustrations did Carroll add to the manuscript?
A) 37
B) 42
C) 50
D) 22
  • 45. Who illustrated the edition of Alice that won the Kurt Maschler Award in 1999?
A) Helen Oxenbury
B) Alice Gerstenberg
C) E. L. Kearney
D) Anthony Browne
  • 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) Philip Rosenbach
B) Lewis Carroll
C) Anni Swan
D) Martin Gardner
  • 48. Who provided illustrations for a new edition of the novel to mark Tenniel's 200th anniversary?
A) Chris Riddell
B) Lewis Carroll
C) John Tenniel
D) Harry Theaker
  • 49. In which year was 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' first published in German?
A) 1869
B) 1872
C) 1886
D) 1871
  • 50. Which character refers to the Liddell sisters as Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie?
A) The Dormouse
B) The Mock Turtle
C) The White Rabbit
D) The Hatter
  • 51. What was the reaction from critics and readers to Tenniel’s illustrations?
A) They received mixed reviews.
B) The praise was unanimous.
C) They were criticized for being too simplistic.
D) They were largely ignored.
  • 52. Which illustrator provided illustrations for Alice in 1969 along with Graham Overden?
A) Charles Pears
B) Peter Blake
C) Mervyn Peake
D) Salvador Dalí
  • 53. In what year was the manuscript of 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground' presented to the British Library?
A) 1960
B) After 1928
C) 1907
D) 1890
  • 54. Who published a special edition titled 'The Annotated Alice' in 1960?
A) Lewis Carroll
B) Philip Rosenbach
C) Martin Gardner
D) Mrs J. C. Gorham
  • 55. Who translated Alice's Adventures in Wonderland into Swedish?
A) Emily Nonnen
B) Antonie Zimmermann
C) Teodorico Pietrocòla Rossetti
D) Anni Swan
  • 56. Which composer released songs from the 1992 musical 'Alice' as an album?
A) Tom Waits
B) Paul Schmidt
C) John Lennon
D) Kathleen Brennan
  • 57. Who composed an Alice-themed ballet for the London Festival Ballet in 1953?
A) Joseph Horovitz
B) Philip Glass
C) Christopher Wheeldon
D) Gerald Barry
  • 58. Which Argentine prog-rock band used Alice as a metaphor?
A) Enanitos Verdes
B) Seru Giran
C) Soda Stereo
D) Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
  • 59. What does Daniel Bivona suggest characterizes Alice in Wonderland?
A) Chaotic environments
B) Gamelike social structures
C) Unpredictable characters
D) Strict rules
  • 60. What did John Lennon attribute to his reading of Carroll's books?
A) The song's fantastical imagery
B) The decision to join The Beatles
C) His interest in psychedelic music
D) The melody for 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds'
  • 61. What was the sale price of Alice Liddell's own copy at auction in 2009?
A) $1.54 million
B) $115,000
C) Not specified
D) $15,400
  • 62. Where can you find the Alice in Wonderland: coloured lantern slides from 1910-1919?
A) Indiana University Digital Library
B) Project Gutenberg
C) Archival materials collection
D) Royal Mail
  • 63. Which Japanese fashion style was inspired by Alice?
A) Harajuku fashion
B) Lolita fashion
C) Gothic Lolita
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 'The Spider and the Fly'
D) A parody of 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'
  • 65. '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) 'Star of the Evening, Beautiful Star' by James M. Sayles
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) 1899
C) 1928
D) 1910
  • 67. 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat' is a parody of which nursery rhyme?
A) 'Star of the Evening, Beautiful Star'
B) 'The Sluggard'
C) 'Against Idleness and Mischief'
D) 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'
  • 68. In what year was 'Alice in Wonderland' named among the icons of England?
A) 2006
B) 1985
C) 2014
D) 1999
  • 69. Who translated the French version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
A) Henri Bué
B) Antonie Zimmermann
C) Emily Nonnen
D) Teodorico Pietrocòla Rossetti
  • 70. Which publishing house sold the text blocks of the original edition with Carroll's permission?
A) Richard Clay
B) D. Appleton & Company
C) Alexander Macmillan
D) Macmillan Publishers
  • 71. Who played multiple roles in Elizabeth Swados' 'Alice in Concert'?
A) Debbie Allen
B) Mark Linn-Baker
C) Meryl Streep
D) Michael Jeter
  • 72. Who was personally selected by Lewis Carroll to play Alice in the first major production?
A) Meryl Streep
B) Twelve-year-old actress Phoebe Carlo
C) Isa Bowman
D) Olivia de Havilland
  • 73. What year did Alice Gerstenberg's stage adaptation premiere?
A) 1905
B) 1915
C) 1999
D) 1928
  • 74. Which character is associated with a caricature resembling William Ewart Gladstone?
A) The Dodo
B) The Mock Turtle
C) The Hatter
D) The Unicorn
  • 75. In what year did Eva Le Gallienne's stage adaptation of the Alice books premiere?
A) 1980
B) 1932
C) 1947
D) 1956
  • 76. Which country published 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' as 'Liisan seikkailut ihmemaailmassa'?
A) Finland
B) France
C) Italy
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) Emily Nonnen
B) Henri Bué
C) Antonie Zimmermann
D) Teodorico Pietrocòla Rossetti
  • 79. What is missing from Alice's recitation of Latin declensions?
A) The ablative case, mure.
B) The genitive case, muris.
C) The dative case, muri.
D) The nominative case, mus.
  • 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) No specific color.
B) A green binding.
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 illustrate another book.
B) To publish more children's books.
C) For his next book.
D) To write a sequel to Alice.
  • 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) 1928
B) 1915
C) 1960
D) 1907
  • 85. How many first edition copies of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland are known to exist?
A) 22
B) 50
C) 42
D) 37
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