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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) Jane Austen
C) Lewis Carroll
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) Peter Pan
D) The Wizard of Oz
  • 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 Queen of Hearts
C) The Mad Hatter
D) The Mock Turtle
  • 5. Who hosts a tea party where the Hatter and the March Hare are in attendance?
A) The Queen of Hearts
B) The White Rabbit
C) The Mad Hatter
D) The Caterpillar
  • 6. What is the Queen of Hearts' favorite phrase?
A) Off with their heads!
B) We're all mad here!
C) Curiouser and curiouser!
D) Let them eat cake!
  • 7. Who is constantly grinning and can disappear and reappear at will?
A) The Queen of Hearts
B) The Mad Hatter
C) The White Rabbit
D) The Cheshire Cat
  • 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) 1890
B) 1856
C) 1871
D) 1865
  • 11. What is the name of the girl who inspired Alice Liddell?
A) Edith Mary Liddell
B) Alice Pleasance Liddell
C) Lorina Charlotte Liddell
D) Prima
  • 12. How many wood-engraved illustrations did John Tenniel provide for the book?
A) 25
B) 42
C) 30
D) 50
  • 13. What genre is 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' considered an example of?
A) Mystery
B) Romance
C) Science fiction
D) Literary nonsense
  • 14. Who did Lewis Carroll row with on the river Isis on 4 July 1862?
A) Charles Dodgson
B) John Tenniel
C) Henry Liddell
D) The Reverend Robinson Duckworth
  • 15. How many daughters of Henry Liddell were with Carroll on the river trip?
A) Two
B) Three
C) Four
D) One
  • 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) 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) 1885
B) 1871
C) 1890
D) 1865
  • 19. How many languages has 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' been translated into?
A) 200
B) 174
C) 150
D) 100
  • 20. What was the name of the boat trip that inspired Carroll to write 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground'?
A) Across the Lake District
B) Up the river Isis
C) Along the Seine
D) Down the Thames River
  • 21. What was Alice Liddell's nickname in the book's prefatory verse?
A) Quarta
B) Secunda
C) Prima
D) Tertia
  • 22. Who did Carroll parody in his work 'Alice Gray'?
A) Lewis Carroll himself
B) Charles Dickens
C) John Tenniel
D) William Mee
  • 23. What happened to the earliest version of 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground'?
A) It became Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
B) It was published in 1863
C) It was illustrated by John Tenniel
D) It is lost
  • 24. Who suggested that Carroll should publish 'Alice'?
A) Lewis Carroll himself
B) John Tenniel
C) MacDonald's family
D) The British Library
  • 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 26 November 1864
C) In 1886
D) On 2 July 1863
  • 28. What year did Macmillan publish a facsimile of 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground'?
A) 1864
B) 1875
C) 1863
D) 1886
  • 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 cake labelled 'Eat me'
D) From the bottle labelled 'Drink me'
  • 30. What causes Alice to grow to an enormous size?
A) Crying in her own tears
B) Drinking from a bottle
C) Eating the cake labelled 'Eat me'
D) Biting into the mushroom
  • 31. What type of race do Alice and the animals participate in?
A) A croquet game
B) The Lobster Quadrille
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) 'You Are Old, Father William'
B) 'The Queen of Hearts'
C) 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat'
D) 'How Doth the Little Crocodile'
  • 33. Who is suggested to be represented by the Hatter?
A) Theophilus Carter
B) John Ruskin
C) Benjamin Disraeli
D) Lewis Carroll
  • 34. Which poem parodies Isaac Watts's 'Against Idleness and Mischief'?
A) 'The Mouse's Tale'
B) 'How Doth the Little Crocodile'
C) 'You Are Old, Father William'
D) 'All in the golden afternoon...'
  • 35. Which city features an Alice in Wonderland statue located in a park?
A) Adelaide, Rymill Park
B) Warrington
C) Daresbury, Cheshire
D) New York, Central Park
  • 36. What does Wonderland symbolize in the interpretation by Morton N. Cohen?
A) London
B) Manchester
C) Cambridge
D) Oxford
  • 37. What did the protagonist of 'Alice in Wonderland' become recognized as?
A) A historical person
B) A minor character
C) A cultural icon
D) An educational figure
  • 38. Which country published 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' as 'Le Avventure di Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie'?
A) Sweden
B) France
C) Germany
D) Italy
  • 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) J.K. Rowling
B) Dr. Seuss
C) Douglas Adams
D) Roald Dahl
  • 41. In which year did the Royal Mail issue a series of UK postage stamps featuring Alice characters?
A) 2015
B) 1932
C) 2021
D) 1866
  • 42. What is 'The Mouse's Tale' an example of?
A) A parody of a nursery rhyme
B) An actual nursery rhyme
C) A song
D) Concrete poetry
  • 43. Who is caricatured as the 'Man in White Paper'?
A) Benjamin Disraeli
B) John Ruskin
C) Theophilus Carter
D) Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
  • 44. How many illustrations did Carroll add to the manuscript?
A) 22
B) 50
C) 42
D) 37
  • 45. Who illustrated the edition of Alice that won the Kurt Maschler Award in 1999?
A) Helen Oxenbury
B) E. L. Kearney
C) Alice Gerstenberg
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) Martin Gardner
B) Philip Rosenbach
C) Anni Swan
D) Lewis Carroll
  • 48. Who provided illustrations for a new edition of the novel to mark Tenniel's 200th anniversary?
A) Harry Theaker
B) Lewis Carroll
C) John Tenniel
D) Chris Riddell
  • 49. In which year was 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' first published in German?
A) 1871
B) 1869
C) 1872
D) 1886
  • 50. Which character refers to the Liddell sisters as Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie?
A) The Hatter
B) The White Rabbit
C) The Dormouse
D) The Mock Turtle
  • 51. 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 received mixed reviews.
D) They were largely ignored.
  • 52. Which illustrator provided illustrations for Alice in 1969 along with Graham Overden?
A) Mervyn Peake
B) Charles Pears
C) Salvador Dalí
D) Peter Blake
  • 53. In what year was the manuscript of 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground' presented to the British Library?
A) 1960
B) 1890
C) After 1928
D) 1907
  • 54. Who published a special edition titled 'The Annotated Alice' in 1960?
A) Mrs J. C. Gorham
B) Martin Gardner
C) Lewis Carroll
D) Philip Rosenbach
  • 55. Who translated Alice's Adventures in Wonderland into Swedish?
A) Anni Swan
B) Antonie Zimmermann
C) Emily Nonnen
D) Teodorico Pietrocòla Rossetti
  • 56. Which composer released songs from the 1992 musical 'Alice' as an album?
A) Kathleen Brennan
B) Paul Schmidt
C) Tom Waits
D) John Lennon
  • 57. Who composed an Alice-themed ballet for the London Festival Ballet in 1953?
A) Gerald Barry
B) Joseph Horovitz
C) Philip Glass
D) Christopher Wheeldon
  • 58. Which Argentine prog-rock band used Alice as a metaphor?
A) Seru Giran
B) Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
C) Enanitos Verdes
D) Soda Stereo
  • 59. What does Daniel Bivona suggest characterizes Alice in Wonderland?
A) Gamelike social structures
B) Unpredictable characters
C) Strict rules
D) Chaotic environments
  • 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) Not specified
B) $115,000
C) $1.54 million
D) $15,400
  • 62. Where can you find the Alice in Wonderland: coloured lantern slides from 1910-1919?
A) Project Gutenberg
B) Royal Mail
C) Indiana University Digital Library
D) Archival materials collection
  • 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 '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) 'Star of the Evening, Beautiful Star'
B) 'The Sluggard'
C) 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'
D) 'Against Idleness and Mischief'
  • 68. In what year was 'Alice in Wonderland' named among the icons of England?
A) 2006
B) 2014
C) 1985
D) 1999
  • 69. Who translated the French version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
A) Teodorico Pietrocòla Rossetti
B) Emily Nonnen
C) Henri Bué
D) Antonie Zimmermann
  • 70. Which publishing house sold the text blocks of the original edition with Carroll's permission?
A) D. Appleton & Company
B) Macmillan Publishers
C) Richard Clay
D) Alexander Macmillan
  • 71. Who played multiple roles in Elizabeth Swados' 'Alice in Concert'?
A) Debbie Allen
B) Michael Jeter
C) Mark Linn-Baker
D) Meryl Streep
  • 72. Who was personally selected by Lewis Carroll to play Alice in the first major production?
A) Olivia de Havilland
B) Isa Bowman
C) Twelve-year-old actress Phoebe Carlo
D) Meryl Streep
  • 73. What year did Alice Gerstenberg's stage adaptation premiere?
A) 1928
B) 1915
C) 1905
D) 1999
  • 74. Which character is associated with a caricature resembling William Ewart Gladstone?
A) The Mock Turtle
B) The Unicorn
C) The Hatter
D) The Dodo
  • 75. In what year did Eva Le Gallienne's stage adaptation of the Alice books premiere?
A) 1932
B) 1947
C) 1980
D) 1956
  • 76. Which country published 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' as 'Liisan seikkailut ihmemaailmassa'?
A) Sweden
B) Italy
C) Finland
D) France
  • 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) Antonie Zimmermann
C) Henri Bué
D) Emily Nonnen
  • 79. What is missing from Alice's recitation of Latin declensions?
A) The genitive case, muris.
B) The nominative case, mus.
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) November 1865
C) 1865
D) December 1864
  • 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 blue binding.
D) A red 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) For his next book.
D) To publish more children's books.
  • 83. Why did Alice trust the instructions on the bottle labeled 'drink me'?
A) She wanted to grow smaller.
B) She recalled that children who do not follow rules often meet terrible fates.
C) She trusted all labels.
D) She was curious about its effects.
  • 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) 50
B) 37
C) 22
D) 42
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