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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.

Author
tjoebigham

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
28,536

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
25

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
16 / 25

Plays
3094

Awards
Top 20% Quiz

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Question 1 of 25

1. What was Carroll's real name? Hint

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

Mary Ann Evans

Eric Blair

Henry Vincent Yorke

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Question 2 of 25

2. What were his vocations? Hint

quartermaster, clerk

priest, tutor

deacon, mathematician

cricket coach, purser

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Question 3 of 25

3. What disorders did Carroll suffer from? Hint

stammering, epilepsy, partial deafness and ADHD

myopia, arthritis and Tourette's Syndrome

asthma, erisipylas and multiple sclerosis

St. Vitus' Dance, deafness and anemia

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Question 4 of 25

4. What was Carroll's hobby? Hint

photography

sculpting

yachting

biking

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Question 5 of 25

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

Queen of Spades

King of Diamonds

Knave of Clubs

Queen of Hearts

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Question 6 of 25

6. Which character has the ability to vanish? Hint

Unicorn

Griffin

Dormouse

Cheshire Cat

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Question 7 of 25

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

Dinah

Heathcliff

Garfield

Salem

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Question 8 of 25

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

parcheesi

Chinese Checkers

backgammon

chess

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Question 9 of 25

9. Which character doesn't fit here? Hint

Rumplestiltskin

Humpty Dumpty

Tweedledee and Tweedledum

Lion and Unicorn

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Question 10 of 25

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

Jabberwocky

Twinkle, Twinkle

Father William

Speak Roughly

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Question 11 of 25

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

Edmund Dulac

E.P. Shepard

Lewis Carroll

Merwyn Peake

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Question 12 of 25

12. Who never illustrated Carroll's works? Hint

W.W. Denslow

Arthur Rackham

Sir John Tenniel

Ralph Steadman

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Question 13 of 25

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

The Tale of the Bellman

The Hunting of the Boojum

The Hunting of the Snark

The Beaver Hunt

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Question 14 of 25

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

$1.95

In this style 10/6

Hands Off!

This is a hat

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Question 15 of 25

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

Soup, Glorious Soup

Beautiful Soup

Your'e the Clam in my Chowder

A Cup of Chowder

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Question 16 of 25

16. And the seaside dance? Hint

Marlin Mambo

Jellyfish Jamboree

Lobster Quadrille

Swordfish Samba

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Question 17 of 25

17. Who ate the oysters? Hint

Lion and Unicorn

Hare and Hatter

Tweedledee and Tweedledum

The Walrus and the Carpenter

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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

Rule 42

Rule 57

Rule 33

Rule 66

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Question 19 of 25

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

Tweedledee and Tweedledum

Walrus and Carpenter

Hatta and Haigha

Griffin and Mock Turtle

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Question 20 of 25

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

Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

Who Stole the Tarts?

Wool and Water

Mirror, Mirror

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Question 21 of 25

21. Which country did Carroll visit? Hint

Portugal

France

Russia

Spain

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Question 22 of 25

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

True

False

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Question 23 of 25

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

June 4th, 1888

July 4th, 1862

August 9th, 1894

November 22nd, 1904

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Question 24 of 25

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

train ride

trolley ride

steamship voyage

boating trip

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Question 25 of 25

25. What book was not written by Carroll? Hint

Sylvie and Bruno

Mischmasch

Pillow Problems

The Sword in the Stone

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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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