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Quiz about Lewis Carroll
Quiz about Lewis Carroll

25 Questions: Lewis Carroll Multiple Choice Quiz | Literature


Lewis Carroll was an extraordinary person under his mundane exterior!

A multiple-choice quiz by tjoebigham. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
tjoebigham
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
28,536
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
25
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
16 / 25
Plays
3112
Awards
Top 20% Quiz
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Question 1 of 25
1. What was Carroll's real name? Hint


Question 2 of 25
2. What were his vocations? Hint


Question 3 of 25
3. What disorders did Carroll suffer from? Hint


Question 4 of 25
4. What was Carroll's hobby? Hint


Question 5 of 25
5. Which of Carroll's living cards in "Wonderland" is always yelling, 'Off with his head!'? Hint


Question 6 of 25
6. Which character has the ability to vanish? Hint


Question 7 of 25
7. What is the name of Alice's kitten in the first book? Hint


Question 8 of 25
8. What game did Carroll base his sequel, 'Through The Looking-Glass' on? Hint


Question 9 of 25
9. Which character doesn't fit here? Hint


Question 10 of 25
10. Name the best known poem from 'Looking Glass' Hint


Question 11 of 25
11. Who was the first illustrator of the 'Alice' books? Hint


Question 12 of 25
12. Who never illustrated Carroll's works? Hint


Question 13 of 25
13. Which poem of Carroll's includes a beaver among its characters? Hint


Question 14 of 25
14. What is the inscription on the Mad Hatter's hat? Hint


Question 15 of 25
15. What is the Mock Turtle's song? Hint


Question 16 of 25
16. And the seaside dance? Hint


Question 17 of 25
17. Who ate the oysters? Hint


Question 18 of 25
18. Which rule of the King of Heart's forbade 'any person over a mile high to enter the court'? Hint


Question 19 of 25
19. Who are the messengers in 'Looking Glass'? Hint


Question 20 of 25
20. Which novel took its title from 'Looking Glass'? Hint


Question 21 of 25
21. Which country did Carroll visit? Hint


Question 22 of 25
22. True or false: Carroll named Alice for a real person.


Question 23 of 25
23. When did Carroll first tell his Alice story? Hint


Question 24 of 25
24. What was the event where Carroll first told the story? Hint


Question 25 of 25
25. What book was not written by Carroll? Hint





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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. What was Carroll's real name?

Answer: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

Dodgson got his pen name by transposing and Latinizing his first two names.
2. What were his vocations?

Answer: deacon, mathematician

He was deacon and math teacher at Oxford.
3. What disorders did Carroll suffer from?

Answer: stammering, epilepsy, partial deafness and ADHD

Along with shyness, it was his stammer and deafness in one ear that ruled out public speaking for Carroll; he never took Holy Orders in any case. Epilepsy and ADHD also plagued him throughout his life.
4. What was Carroll's hobby?

Answer: photography

Carroll was a gifted amateur {photographer;} however, some of his pictures of little girls were controversial and eventually he gave it up.
5. Which of Carroll's living cards in "Wonderland" is always yelling, 'Off with his head!'?

Answer: Queen of Hearts

One of the most memorable characters from the 'Alice' books. Earlier, the Duchess says, "Speaking of axes, Cook, cut off her head!" But she later sweetens on next meeting Alice. The Queen stays explosive and nasty throughout.
6. Which character has the ability to vanish?

Answer: Cheshire Cat

The picture of the Cheshire Cat fading, leaving only his grin, is one of the great scenes in the book.
7. What is the name of Alice's kitten in the first book?

Answer: Dinah

Dinah was her kitten.
8. What game did Carroll base his sequel, 'Through The Looking-Glass' on?

Answer: chess

Chess fitted the mirror-reversal theme of the second book.
9. Which character doesn't fit here?

Answer: Rumplestiltskin

Not only did the others appear in 'Looking Glass', but they came from nursery rhymes, while Rumplestiltskin is a fairy tale character.
10. Name the best known poem from 'Looking Glass'

Answer: Jabberwocky

Deciphering all the meaning behind those portmanteau words has become a cottage industry!
11. Who was the first illustrator of the 'Alice' books?

Answer: Lewis Carroll

Believe it or not, Carroll himself illustrated the first handwritten copy of his 'Alice' story(in fact, he often did his own drawings for his stories).
12. Who never illustrated Carroll's works?

Answer: W.W. Denslow

Denslow is best known for illustrating 'The Wizard of Oz'.
13. Which poem of Carroll's includes a beaver among its characters?

Answer: The Hunting of the Snark

Jack London named his sloop after Carroll's never-seen title character(like Daphne DuMaurier's Rebecca!)
14. What is the inscription on the Mad Hatter's hat?

Answer: In this style 10/6

Interestingly, hatters went 'mad' because of mercury poisoning from the treatment of rabbit fur for the hats.
15. What is the Mock Turtle's song?

Answer: Beautiful Soup

It was a parody of the song 'Beautiful Star'.
16. And the seaside dance?

Answer: Lobster Quadrille

Joseph Cornell did one of his collage-boxes on the subject.
17. Who ate the oysters?

Answer: The Walrus and the Carpenter

Dee and Dum were the ones who narrated the poem about those oyster-eaters, actually!
18. Which rule of the King of Heart's forbade 'any person over a mile high to enter the court'?

Answer: Rule 42

The number 42 pops up in many of Carroll's writings.
19. Who are the messengers in 'Looking Glass'?

Answer: Hatta and Haigha

They are called Hatta and Haigha in the book, perhaps indirectly alluding to the Mad Hatter and March Hare in the first book, though it's not certain Carroll really did return them to the sequel. The Tenniel illustrations, though, do depict the Hatter and Hare in costume, so perhaps Tenniel assumed they were written in!
20. Which novel took its title from 'Looking Glass'?

Answer: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

Angus Wilson got his title from the 'Anglo-Saxon Attitudes' of Carroll's messengers.
21. Which country did Carroll visit?

Answer: Russia

And wrote a book about it.
22. True or false: Carroll named Alice for a real person.

Answer: True

Alice Pleasance Liddell, the daughter of a fellow cleric and a favorite of his.
23. When did Carroll first tell his Alice story?

Answer: July 4th, 1862

While Americans celebrated Independence Day...
24. What was the event where Carroll first told the story?

Answer: boating trip

It was on a boating picnic on the Isis branch of the Thames with the Liddells that Carroll first told the story of Alice.
25. What book was not written by Carroll?

Answer: The Sword in the Stone

'Sword' was written by T. H. White, whose works were the basis for the Disney cartoon and the hit musical 'Camelot'. (The Arthurian myth, though, was long in existence before these versions came out)
Source: Author tjoebigham

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