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Books Quiz - Author - Lewis Carroll (Questions)

Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, was born in Cheshire in 1832. He went to Oxford University and got a degree in Maths. He then went on to become a lecturer in Maths at Oxford, whilst at the same time writing comic poems and prose for his own amusement. He had a few works published and also became a well respected photographer.

Alice in Wonderland, a story based on a boat trip he had taken with a girl named Alice Liddell, was published in 1865. This proved popular and, in 1871, a sequel was published called Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. In addition to his nonsense rhymes and his children’s fiction, Carroll also wrote mathematical treatises and became a deacon in the Church of England. He died in 1898 at the age of 65.

How much do you know about the life and works of Lewis Carroll? Can you be sure about where the slithy toves gyre and gimble or which board game is associated with Through the Looking-Glass? Take this quiz and find out!

1. What was Carroll's real name?
[ ] Charles Lutwidge Dodge
[ ] Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
[ ] Charles Lutwidge Hodge
[ ] Charles Lutwidge Hodgson
2. What is the title of Carroll's 1876 'nonsense' poem?
[ ] The Hunting of the Nark
[ ] The Hunting of the Quark
[ ] The Hunting of the Snark
[ ] The Hunting of the Zark
3. In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, what is the price on the Mad Hatter's hat?
[ ] Five shillings
[ ] Five shillings and sixpence
[ ] Ten shillings
[ ] Ten shillings and sixpence
4. In the poem Jabberwocky, where do the slithy toves gyre and gimble?
[ ] In the flabe
[ ] In the grabe
[ ] In the snabe
[ ] In the wabe
5. Who did the original illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass?
[ ] John Tennent
[ ] John Tenniel
[ ] John Tennyson
[ ] John Trevelyan
6. The 1872 book Through the Looking-Glass is loosely based on which board game?
[ ] Chess
[ ] Draughts
[ ] Ludo
[ ] Snakes and ladders
7. What is the name of Alice's cat in both Alice books?
[ ] Daphne
[ ] Diana
[ ] Dinah
[ ] Dorothy
8. Which word game is Carroll thought to have invented?
[ ] Word Association
[ ] Word Ladder
[ ] Word Search
[ ] Word Square
9. In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which character gradually disappears until only its grin remains?
[ ] The Caterpillar
[ ] The Cheshire Cat
[ ] The Dodo
[ ] The Mock Turtle
10. In Through the Looking-Glass, from whom is Alice rescued by the White Knight?
[ ] The Black Knight
[ ] The Dark and Stormy Knight
[ ] The Green Knight
[ ] The Red Knight

 

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Books Quiz - Author - Lewis Carroll (Answers)
1. What was Carroll's real name?
[ ] Charles Lutwidge Dodge
[x] Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
[ ] Charles Lutwidge Hodge
[ ] Charles Lutwidge Hodgson
His father, grandfather and great-grandfather were also called Charles Dodgson
2. What is the title of Carroll's 1876 'nonsense' poem?
[ ] The Hunting of the Nark
[ ] The Hunting of the Quark
[x] The Hunting of the Snark
[ ] The Hunting of the Zark
The Hunting of the Snark is a long poem. It contains almost 4,500 words!
3. In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, what is the price on the Mad Hatter's hat?
[ ] Five shillings
[ ] Five shillings and sixpence
[ ] Ten shillings
[x] Ten shillings and sixpence
That's how much the hat would have been worth at the time
4. In the poem Jabberwocky, where do the slithy toves gyre and gimble?
[ ] In the flabe
[ ] In the grabe
[ ] In the snabe
[x] In the wabe
The first verse of the poem goes:

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
5. Who did the original illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass?
[ ] John Tennent
[x] John Tenniel
[ ] John Tennyson
[ ] John Trevelyan
He also drew many cartoons for Punch magazine
6. The 1872 book Through the Looking-Glass is loosely based on which board game?
[x] Chess
[ ] Draughts
[ ] Ludo
[ ] Snakes and ladders
Alice represents a pawn
7. What is the name of Alice's cat in both Alice books?
[ ] Daphne
[ ] Diana
[x] Dinah
[ ] Dorothy
Alice talks to the inhabitants of Wonderland about Dinah. In one scene she makes them uncomfortable by describing Dinah's ability to hunt
8. Which word game is Carroll thought to have invented?
[ ] Word Association
[x] Word Ladder
[ ] Word Search
[ ] Word Square
A 'start word' must be changed into an 'end word', by a series of clearly defined steps
9. In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which character gradually disappears until only its grin remains?
[ ] The Caterpillar
[x] The Cheshire Cat
[ ] The Dodo
[ ] The Mock Turtle
Carroll based some of his characters on well-known phrases. The Cheshire Cat comes from the phrase "He grinned like a Cheshire cat" and the Mad Hatter comes from "As mad as a hatter"
10. In Through the Looking-Glass, from whom is Alice rescued by the White Knight?
[ ] The Black Knight
[ ] The Dark and Stormy Knight
[ ] The Green Knight
[x] The Red Knight
The Red Knight tries to capture Alice for the Red side, but the White Knight suddenly appears and exclaims that he has rescued her. They decide to fight over her whilst sticking to the peculiar "Rules of Battle" in Looking-Glass Land
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