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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson used this pen name to bring us 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass', both containing fantastic characters and memorable nonsense poems.
19 Lewis Carroll quizzes and 225 Lewis Carroll trivia questions.
1.
  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland   best quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Lewis Carroll's classic children's novel takes readers down the rabbit hole with Alice into a wonderful land of nonsense and confusion. See if you remember what happened in Alice's first trip to Wonderland. Good luck!
Average, 10 Qns, kyleisalive, Jan 21 23
Recommended for grades: 6,7,8,9
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  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland II   best quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
In this quiz we continue to journey with Alice in Wonderland, discovering some of the wackiest creatures ever set down in print. Curious? Play me.
Average, 10 Qns, thejazzkickazz, Dec 21 05
Recommended for grades: 6,7,8,9
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  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland I   top quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Whether one views this as madcap fantasy, surreal horror or clever satire, one cannot deny the literary power of Lewis Carroll's great classic 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'. This quiz deals with the first several chapters...good luck!
Average, 10 Qns, thejazzkickazz, Oct 17 20
Recommended for grades: 6,7,8,9
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Oct 17 20
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  25 Questions: Lewis Carroll Multiple Choice Quiz   great trivia quiz  
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Lewis Carroll was an extraordinary person under his mundane exterior!
Average, 25 Qns, tjoebigham, Jun 03 21
Recommended for grades: 6,7,8,9
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Jun 03 21
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  Alice in Wonderland (Book)    
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This quiz is only about the book 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' It has no questions about 'Through the Looking-Glass'. I hope this quiz isn't too hard!
Average, 10 Qns, Braklover, Sep 24 15
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  Alice's Looking Glass Wonderland    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
Charles Dodgson as Lewis Carroll created some timeless characters, but do you remember in which book a particular character appeared: "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", "Through the Looking-Glass", both books, or perhaps another work? Your choice.
Tough, 15 Qns, davejacobs, Aug 19 21
Recommended for grades: 8,9,10
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Aug 19 21
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  The Hunting of the Jabberwock   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
Are you beamish enough to hunt the monster of all monsters, the Jabberwock? Join me in the unique quest and prove your valor!
Easier, 15 Qns, mari-e, Apr 18 10
Recommended for grades: 6,7,8,9
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  Six Impossible Things    
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Venture into the weird and wonderful world of Lewis Carroll with a selection of quotes and even curiouser trivia about his life.
Average, 10 Qns, VegemiteKid, Jan 21 19
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Jan 21 19
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  Poetry of Lewis Carroll, from the 'Alice' books    
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My favourite bits of "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" and "Through The Looking Glass" are the poetry and songs. Here is a quiz dedicated to that.
Average, 10 Qns, Buzby, Jul 22 03
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  Jabberwocky: The Meaning Behind the Nonsense    
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If you are is familiar with Carroll's "Jabberwocky", then you know it is filled with many silly words. Humpty-Dumpty tries to explain these to Alice in "Through the Looking Glass". Do you know what these strange words from the first stanza mean?
Average, 10 Qns, JadeRain, May 24 15
Recommended for grades: 7,8,9
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From which quizzical personage does sulky exclamation "Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today" come?

From Quiz "Six Impossible Things"




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  Lewis Carroll and his Parodies   popular trivia quiz  
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I will give you lines from the original poems, and you will supply the line parodied by Lewis Carroll. These would be the lines appearing in his book _Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_. Carroll loves to express his whimsical ideas through poetry.
Average, 10 Qns, JadeRain, May 08 07
Recommended for grades: 7,8,9
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  "The Walrus and the Carpenter"    
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What can possibly happen on a casual evening stroll? Well, we'll see about that in Lewis Carroll's whimsical poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter".
Average, 10 Qns, Manda16, Oct 12 03
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  For True Alice-philes   popular trivia quiz  
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This quiz takes a closer look at two of Lewis Carroll's great works, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass". If your only knowledge of Alice comes from Walt Disney's animated movie, then you need not bother...
Tough, 10 Qns, jgiles, Mar 12 06
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  The Best of Lewis Carroll    
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 20 Qns
A serious mathematician or an imaginative poet? Play this quiz to unlock the secret of "Lewis Carroll!"
Average, 20 Qns, dancing_sun_star, Oct 13 20
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Oct 13 20
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  Curiouser and Curiouser    
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Alice and Wonderland has always been a sort of fascination for me. This quiz goes over "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass" along with some of the history behind the stories. Lets see what you know!
Average, 10 Qns, Aznboy, Oct 13 20
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Oct 13 20
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  I Feel a Little Snarky Today    
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Apart from the "Alice" books, "The Hunting of the Snark" is Lewis Carroll's best known work. How much do you know about the hunting of these elusive beasts?
Average, 10 Qns, tonye49, Jan 30 14
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  The Hunting of the Snark    
Multiple Choice
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Test your knowledge of Lewis Carroll's lesser-known poetic masterpiece, about the search for a unique creature.
Average, 10 Qns, jgiles, Mar 12 06
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  The Works of Lewis Carroll    
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Some questions about the wacky work of Alice's friend.
Average, 10 Qns, quogequox, Jul 12 03
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  Average Lewis Carroll Quiz - 10 Questions    
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Lewis Carroll has written many poems, his most popular ones are from his "Alice" books. I'll write a verse and you name the poem.
Average, 10 Qns, Spikesgrl1, Jan 18 15
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Lewis Carroll Trivia Questions

1. Alice appears in which book (or books) by Lewis Carroll?

From Quiz
Alice's Looking Glass Wonderland

Answer: Both books

The Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson, published his books using the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. The character in the book was almost certainly named for the daughter of Dodgson's Oxford colleague Henry Liddell, dean of Christ Church Oxford. In 1862 Dodgson retold his stories, which he had begun some years before, to ten-year old Alice and her two sisters as they were being rowed on the Isis, and she asked him to write them down, which he did. He gave her the manuscript, using the title "Alice's Adventures Underground". Three years later the story was published as "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll. It is generally accepted that the Alice in the book was about seven years old, which is what the real Alice was when the story-telling began.

2. "I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours" quipped which excessively beauteous kitty?

From Quiz Six Impossible Things

Answer: The Cheshire Cat

The wide grin of the Cheshire Cat appears first in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", and the Cat both amuses and perplexes Alice during her adventures. The book was written for a young friend named Alice Liddell, and Dodgson (who took the pen-name Lewis Carroll) presented her with a hand-written copy before its publication in 1865.

3. "'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves..." What time of day is Brillig?

From Quiz Jabberwocky: The Meaning Behind the Nonsense

Answer: Four o'clock in the afternoon: the time when you begin broiling things for dinner.

"You seem very clever at explaining words Sir," said Alice. "would you kindly tell me the meaning of the poem 'Jabberwocky'?"

4. "How doth the little busy Bee/ Improve each shining hour."

From Quiz Lewis Carroll and his Parodies

Answer: How doth the little crocodile/ Improve his shining tail

Isaac Watts first wrote: How doth the little busy Bee Improve each shining Hour, And gather Honey all the day From every opening Flower! Lewis Carroll later wrote: How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden Scale. Alice recites this to prove she is not Mabel.

5. Having escaped her latest growth spurt in the house of W. Rabbit, Alice wonders amongst the grass and flowers. Suddenly, she happens upon a caterpillar with a long hookah. What is this 'hookah'?

From Quiz Alice's Adventures in Wonderland II

Answer: A pipe

This lengthy blue caterpillar sits atop a rather large mushroom smoking its hookah, a water pipe with a long tube that draws smoke through a water bowl. This cheeky caterpillar gives Alice quite a hard time, but ultimately proves to be able to provide the young lady with some useful advice.

6. What sort of neurotic talking animal does Alice follow into a seemingly endless hole in the opening chapter of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?

From Quiz Alice's Adventures in Wonderland I

Answer: Rabbit

A tiny white rabbit dressed in a sharp-looking waistcoat and sporting a pocket watch is the creature that lures Alice into a the myserious hole that leads to Wonderland. Soon, Alice finds herself in freefall with enough time to contemplate many things, and to converse with herself unhurriedly.

7. Let us commence then. The day seems just perfect for our quest. The toves gyre and gimble and the time is right to go as it is really...

From Quiz The Hunting of the Jabberwock

Answer: Brillig

"`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:" As Humpty Dumpty puts it '"Brillig" means four o'clock in the afternoon--the time when you begin broiling things for dinner.'

8. What is Alice's full name?

From Quiz Curiouser and Curiouser

Answer: Alice Pleasance Liddell

In the last poem in the book "A Boat beneath a Sunny Sky", the first letter of each line reads "Alice Pleasance Liddell".

9. This epic poem is divided into "Fits." How many are there?

From Quiz The Hunting of the Snark

Answer: 8

Each section of the poem is designated by ordinal number - "Fit the First," "Fit the Second," etc. - and a title. "Fit the First" is titled "The Landing."

10. "The sun was shining on the sea, shining with all his might: He did his very best to make the billows smooth and bright -- and this was odd, because it was the middle of the night.

From Quiz Lewis Carroll

Answer: "The Walrus and the Carpenter"

"The Walrus and the Carpenter" was a story told to Alice by Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum in "Through the Looking Glass."

11. "How Doth The Little Crocodile" was a parody of which Victorian rhyme?

From Quiz Poetry of Lewis Carroll, from the 'Alice' books

Answer: How Doth The Little Busy Bee

From "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland." "How Doth The Little Busy Bee" begins: "How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower?" While Lewis Carroll's "How Doth The Little Crocodile" begins "How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale!"

12. What was Carroll's real name?

From Quiz Lewis Carroll

Answer: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

Dodgson got his pen name by transposing and Latinizing his first two names.

13. What was the first Wonderland creature that Alice saw?

From Quiz Alice in Wonderland (Book)

Answer: The White Rabbit

"There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!' But when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of a waistcoat pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet."

14. The Cheshire Cat, when he appears at all, is in which book (or books)?

From Quiz Alice's Looking Glass Wonderland

Answer: Wonderland

Smiling by showing one's teeth was called "grinning like a Cheshire Cat" before Carroll introduced him in his Wonderland book. Its trick of disappearing gradually from the tail up led to an interesting philosophical discussion in the book when the King of Hearts ordered it to be beheaded. Can you behead someone who has no body?

15. What jolly-looking sea-creature, found in zoos and at sea, provides us with the quote: "The time has come...to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings"?

From Quiz Six Impossible Things

Answer: The Walrus

The poem "The Walrus and The Carpenter" was another gem found in the 1872 novel "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There". In this nonsense poem, at which Carroll excelled, the Walrus was walking with the Carpenter, idly wondering if the sand could be cleared away. Some young oysters chose to walk along with them and discoursed about the sea and the weather... but never made it home to their beds, as the Walrus and Carpenter ate them up! The poem of "The Walrus and the Carpenter" was told by the characters Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

16. What interesting number crops up in the "Snark" several times? It's the rule cited in the preface and it's the number of boxes of luggage the Baker forgets. (Hint: Think Douglas Adams)

From Quiz I Feel a Little Snarky Today

Answer: 42

42 is an interesting number - apart from being the meaning of "life the universe and everything" there are some odd coincidences associated with it: molybdenum is the 42nd most common element in the universe and the Starship Enterprise from "Star Trek" has 42 decks. Do a search on 42 and you'll find enough information for a hundred quizzes.

17. What is Alice's prize upon 'winning' the caucus-race?

From Quiz Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Answer: A thimble

The mouse brings Alice to the shore and many other creatures soon follow. As the mouse begins to tell a story, the other animals stop him numerous times complaining that they must all get dry. Alice agrees with this for fear that she might catch cold and the Dodo suggests a caucus-race in which they all run around in a circle, beginning when they want, and ending when they want, until they finish. After a half hour, they cease their running now dry. When the animals ask who the winner is, the Dodo explains that they all won and should all receive prizes from Alice. Worried, Alice digs in her pockets for prizes and finds enough comfits to hand out to everyone. When she is asked where her prize is, she explains that all she has left in her pockets is a thimble. The Dodo takes this from her and elegantly presents it back as her prize. Now dry, Alice asks the mouse to explain why he does not like Cats nor Dogs and he begins his long 'tail', but after noticeable interruptions, he decides not to finish and instead departs. The remaining animals stay behind until Alice mentions her cat, Dinah, and how she misses her. Realizing that she's referring to a cat, the animals flee worrying for their safety. Alice sits alone once more.

18. "All mimsy were the borogoves," What is the meaning of the adjective, mimsy?

From Quiz Jabberwocky: The Meaning Behind the Nonsense

Answer: Flimsy and miserable

"When I make a word do a lot of the work like that," said Humpty-Dumpty, "I always pay it extra."

19. "You are old, Father William," the young man cried/ "The few locks which are left you are grey."

From Quiz Lewis Carroll and his Parodies

Answer: "You are old Father William", the young man said/ "And your hair has become very white"

Robert Southey first wrote: "You are old Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are grey; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man, Now tell me the reason I pray." Lewis Carroll later wrote: "You are old Father William," the young man said, "And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head- Do you think at your age it is right?" The caterpiller asks Alice to repeat this for him.

20. One of the best poems from the story is recited by Alice in the caterpillar chapter. Who is this poem about?

From Quiz Alice's Adventures in Wonderland II

Answer: Father William

The first two verses of this madcap poem read: "You are old, father William," the young man said, "And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head-- Do you think, at your age, it is right?" "In my youth," father William replied to his son, "I feared it might injure the brain; But now that I'm perfectly sure I have none, Why, I do it again and again." Magnificent!

21. Alice mentions her beloved cat several times throughout this book. What is the name of her feline pet?

From Quiz Alice's Adventures in Wonderland I

Answer: Dinah

Alice concerns herself with Dinah as she falls down the rabbit-hole. Later, when Alice mentions Dinah and her predilection for eating birds (among other things), the various animals in Wonderland are either extremely offended or utterly frightened.

22. Now, it's not easy to affright or dishearten us. But wait! Have you observed that something outgrabe? What might that be?

From Quiz The Hunting of the Jabberwock

Answer: Mome raths

"All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe." If you are curious `Well, a "rath" is a sort of green pig: but "mome" I'm not certain about. I think it's short for "from home"--meaning that they'd lost their way, you know.'

23. When Alice first meets the Mouse in the pool of tears, she makes several attempts to talk to it. After she fails to communicate in English, she tries French. What French phrase does she say to the Mouse?

From Quiz For True Alice-philes

Answer: Ou est ma chatte?

Alice thinks the Mouse may have come over with William the Conqueror, and she asks him "Where is my (female) cat"? (Yes, I know there should be a grave accent on the u in 'Ou', but this template does not allow diacritics).

24. "The sun was shining ______."

From Quiz "The Walrus and the Carpenter"

Answer: On the sea

In the poem the sun was shining on the sea. The strange thing about that was in was nighttime and the sun was still up. Maybe someone should tell him!

25. "They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They persued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway-share; They charmed it with smiles and soap."

From Quiz Lewis Carroll

Answer: The Hunting of the Snark & Hunting of the Snark

"The Hunting of the Snark" is about a group of guys hunting an animal called a Snark that sometimes turns out to be a dangerous animal called a Boojum. Boojums can take somebody with out leaving a trace.

26. "'You are old, Father William', the young man said, 'And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your _______? Do you think, at your age, it is right?'" What does Father William incessantly stand on?

From Quiz Poetry of Lewis Carroll, from the 'Alice' books

Answer: Head

"In my youth', Father William replied to his son, 'I feared it might injure the brain; But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none, Why, I do it again and again.'" From "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland". The caterpillar asked Alice to recite this.

27. What is "Lewis Carroll's" real name?

From Quiz The Best of Lewis Carroll

Answer: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and Lewis Carroll are both the same person. This is called a pseudonym.

28. The Walrus says 'its time to talk of many things', what's not one of them?

From Quiz The Works of Lewis Carroll

Answer: Oysters

29. What were his vocations?

From Quiz Lewis Carroll

Answer: deacon, mathematician

He was deacon and math teacher at Oxford.

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