Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) - Quiz
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  • 1. Who is the author of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?
A) Lewis Carroll
B) Jane Austen
C) Charles Dickens
D) Mark Twain
  • 2. What is the title of the sequel to 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?
A) The Wizard of Oz
B) Pride and Prejudice
C) Through the Looking-Glass
D) Peter Pan
  • 3. In the story, which character is always late?
A) The Mad Hatter
B) The White Rabbit
C) The Cheshire Cat
D) The Queen of Hearts
  • 4. Which character teaches Alice about the strange game of croquet with flamingos?
A) The Queen of Hearts
B) The Mock Turtle
C) The Cheshire Cat
D) The Mad Hatter
  • 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 Caterpillar
D) The White Rabbit
  • 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) Tea cups
B) Playing cards
C) Roses
D) Chess pieces
  • 9. What is the original title of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?
A) Alice's Adventures Under Ground
B) Through the Looking-Glass
C) Wonderland Tales
D) The Nursery Alice
  • 10. In what year was 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' first published?
A) 1856
B) 1865
C) 1871
D) 1890
  • 11. What is the name of the girl who inspired Alice Liddell?
A) Prima
B) Edith Mary Liddell
C) Alice Pleasance Liddell
D) Lorina Charlotte Liddell
  • 12. How many wood-engraved illustrations did John Tenniel provide for the book?
A) 50
B) 30
C) 25
D) 42
  • 13. What genre is 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' considered an example of?
A) Literary nonsense
B) Mystery
C) Romance
D) Science fiction
  • 14. Who did Lewis Carroll row with on the river Isis on 4 July 1862?
A) The Reverend Robinson Duckworth
B) Henry Liddell
C) Charles Dodgson
D) John Tenniel
  • 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) Cool and rather wet
B) Stormy
C) Snowy
D) Sunny and warm
  • 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) Write down the story he told her
D) Draw a picture of the journey
  • 18. In what year was 'The Nursery Alice' published?
A) 1890
B) 1885
C) 1871
D) 1865
  • 19. How many languages has 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' been translated into?
A) 174
B) 100
C) 200
D) 150
  • 20. What was the name of the boat trip that inspired Carroll to write 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground'?
A) Along the Seine
B) Across the Lake District
C) Down the Thames River
D) Up the river Isis
  • 21. What was Alice Liddell's nickname in the book's prefatory verse?
A) Quarta
B) Secunda
C) Tertia
D) Prima
  • 22. Who did Carroll parody in his work 'Alice Gray'?
A) Lewis Carroll himself
B) John Tenniel
C) Charles Dickens
D) William Mee
  • 23. What happened to the earliest version of 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground'?
A) It is lost
B) It became Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
C) It was published in 1863
D) It was illustrated by John Tenniel
  • 24. Who suggested that Carroll should publish 'Alice'?
A) John Tenniel
B) MacDonald's family
C) The British Library
D) Lewis Carroll himself
  • 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) At Oxford University
B) In a private collection
C) In the British Library
D) With Alice Liddell's descendants
  • 27. When did Carroll receive a specimen page of the print edition?
A) In 1886
B) On 26 November 1864
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) 1864
B) 1863
C) 1875
D) 1886
  • 29. What does Alice drink that causes her to shrink?
A) From the cake labelled 'Eat me'
B) From a teacup at the tea party
C) From the bottle labelled 'Drink me'
D) From the Caterpillar's hookah
  • 30. What causes Alice to grow to an enormous size?
A) Drinking from a bottle
B) Eating the cake labelled 'Eat me'
C) Crying in her own tears
D) Biting into the mushroom
  • 31. What type of race do Alice and the animals participate in?
A) A tea party
B) The Lobster Quadrille
C) A croquet game
D) A Caucus Race
  • 32. Which character in 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' is a parody of Robert Southey's work?
A) 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat'
B) 'The Queen of Hearts'
C) 'How Doth the Little Crocodile'
D) 'You Are Old, Father William'
  • 33. Who is suggested to be represented by the Hatter?
A) Benjamin Disraeli
B) Lewis Carroll
C) John Ruskin
D) Theophilus Carter
  • 34. Which poem parodies Isaac Watts's 'Against Idleness and Mischief'?
A) 'You Are Old, Father William'
B) 'How Doth the Little Crocodile'
C) 'All in the golden afternoon...'
D) 'The Mouse's Tale'
  • 35. Which city features an Alice in Wonderland statue located in a park?
A) New York, Central Park
B) Adelaide, Rymill Park
C) Warrington
D) Daresbury, Cheshire
  • 36. What does Wonderland symbolize in the interpretation by Morton N. Cohen?
A) London
B) Oxford
C) Manchester
D) Cambridge
  • 37. What did the protagonist of 'Alice in Wonderland' become recognized as?
A) An educational figure
B) A cultural icon
C) A minor character
D) A historical person
  • 38. Which country published 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' as 'Le Avventure di Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie'?
A) Germany
B) Italy
C) Sweden
D) France
  • 39. 'Tis the Voice of the Lobster' is a parody of which work?
A) 'Star of the Evening, Beautiful Star' by James M. Sayles
B) 'The Sluggard' by Isaac Watts
C) 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' by Jane Taylor
D) 'Against Idleness and Mischief' 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) Dr. Seuss
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) 2015
B) 1866
C) 2021
D) 1932
  • 42. What is 'The Mouse's Tale' an example of?
A) A song
B) An actual nursery rhyme
C) Concrete poetry
D) A parody of a nursery rhyme
  • 43. Who is caricatured as the 'Man in White Paper'?
A) John Ruskin
B) Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
C) Benjamin Disraeli
D) Theophilus Carter
  • 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) Anthony Browne
B) E. L. Kearney
C) Helen Oxenbury
D) Alice Gerstenberg
  • 46. What type of book did Lewis Carroll deny writing for Queen Victoria?
A) A children's story
B) A biography
C) Another fantasy novel
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) Philip Rosenbach
D) Lewis Carroll
  • 48. Who provided illustrations for a new edition of the novel to mark Tenniel's 200th anniversary?
A) John Tenniel
B) Harry Theaker
C) Lewis Carroll
D) Chris Riddell
  • 49. In which year was 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' first published in German?
A) 1886
B) 1869
C) 1872
D) 1871
  • 50. Which character refers to the Liddell sisters as Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie?
A) The Dormouse
B) The White Rabbit
C) The Mock Turtle
D) The Hatter
  • 51. What was the reaction from critics and readers to Tenniel’s illustrations?
A) They were largely ignored.
B) They were criticized for being too simplistic.
C) They received mixed reviews.
D) The praise was unanimous.
  • 52. Which illustrator provided illustrations for Alice in 1969 along with Graham Overden?
A) Salvador Dalí
B) Charles Pears
C) Mervyn Peake
D) Peter Blake
  • 53. In what year was the manuscript of 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground' presented to the British Library?
A) 1907
B) 1960
C) After 1928
D) 1890
  • 54. Who published a special edition titled 'The Annotated Alice' in 1960?
A) Lewis Carroll
B) Martin Gardner
C) Philip Rosenbach
D) Mrs J. C. Gorham
  • 55. Who translated Alice's Adventures in Wonderland into Swedish?
A) Anni Swan
B) Emily Nonnen
C) Antonie Zimmermann
D) Teodorico Pietrocòla Rossetti
  • 56. Which composer released songs from the 1992 musical 'Alice' as an album?
A) John Lennon
B) Tom Waits
C) Kathleen Brennan
D) Paul Schmidt
  • 57. Who composed an Alice-themed ballet for the London Festival Ballet in 1953?
A) Philip Glass
B) Joseph Horovitz
C) Christopher Wheeldon
D) Gerald Barry
  • 58. Which Argentine prog-rock band used Alice as a metaphor?
A) Seru Giran
B) Enanitos Verdes
C) Soda Stereo
D) Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
  • 59. What does Daniel Bivona suggest characterizes Alice in Wonderland?
A) Strict rules
B) Unpredictable characters
C) Chaotic environments
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) The song's fantastical imagery
D) His interest in psychedelic music
  • 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) Royal Mail
B) Indiana University Digital Library
C) Archival materials collection
D) Project Gutenberg
  • 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) A parody of 'The Spider and the Fly'
B) A parody of 'Star of the Evening, Beautiful Star'
C) A parody of 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'
D) An actual nursery rhyme
  • 65. '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
  • 66. In what year was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland first published in Esperanto?
A) 1910
B) 1928
C) 1906
D) 1899
  • 67. 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat' is a parody of which nursery rhyme?
A) 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'
B) 'The Sluggard'
C) 'Star of the Evening, Beautiful Star'
D) 'Against Idleness and Mischief'
  • 68. In what year was 'Alice in Wonderland' named among the icons of England?
A) 2014
B) 2006
C) 1999
D) 1985
  • 69. Who translated the French version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
A) Emily Nonnen
B) Antonie Zimmermann
C) Henri Bué
D) Teodorico Pietrocòla Rossetti
  • 70. 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
  • 71. Who played multiple roles in Elizabeth Swados' 'Alice in Concert'?
A) Mark Linn-Baker
B) Meryl Streep
C) Michael Jeter
D) Debbie Allen
  • 72. Who was personally selected by Lewis Carroll to play Alice in the first major production?
A) Olivia de Havilland
B) Meryl Streep
C) Twelve-year-old actress Phoebe Carlo
D) Isa Bowman
  • 73. What year did Alice Gerstenberg's stage adaptation premiere?
A) 1928
B) 1905
C) 1999
D) 1915
  • 74. Which character is associated with a caricature resembling William Ewart Gladstone?
A) The Mock Turtle
B) The Hatter
C) The Dodo
D) The Unicorn
  • 75. In what year did Eva Le Gallienne's stage adaptation of the Alice books premiere?
A) 1932
B) 1956
C) 1947
D) 1980
  • 76. Which country published 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' as 'Liisan seikkailut ihmemaailmassa'?
A) Sweden
B) France
C) Finland
D) Italy
  • 77. What was Tenniel dissatisfied with regarding the 1865 published version?
A) The book's cover design.
B) The illustrations themselves.
C) The storyline.
D) The printing quality.
  • 78. Which translator worked on the Italian version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
A) Henri Bué
B) Teodorico Pietrocòla Rossetti
C) Antonie Zimmermann
D) Emily Nonnen
  • 79. What is missing from Alice's recitation of Latin declensions?
A) The dative case, muri.
B) The ablative case, mure.
C) The genitive case, muris.
D) The nominative case, mus.
  • 80. What was the date on the title page of the Appleton Alice?
A) November 1865
B) December 1864
C) 1865
D) 1866
  • 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 blue binding.
D) A red 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 trusted all labels.
B) She wanted to grow smaller.
C) She was curious about its effects.
D) She recalled that children who do not follow rules often meet terrible fates.
  • 84. In what year did the copyright on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland expire in the UK?
A) 1915
B) 1907
C) 1928
D) 1960
  • 85. How many first edition copies of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland are known to exist?
A) 42
B) 22
C) 50
D) 37
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