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For a book written well over a century ago, "Alice in Wonderland" continues to hold a special place in young and old hearts alike. Take our quiz to see how much you really know about the classic children's work!Dodgson, a mathematician, wrote the classic children's tale under the pen name Lewis Carroll.
Alice is based on Alice Liddell, who inspired Carroll to come up with a story he called "Alice's Adventures Underground."
"Alice in Wonderland" was first published in 1865 and was one of the first books ever published that was designed to amuse and entertain children, rather than simply to educate them.
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The White Rabbit mistakes Alice for his servant Mary Ann and instructs her to find his gloves.
When Alice comes across the caterpillar, he is sitting atop a mushroom smoking a water pipe.
The Cheshire Cat may come and go on a whim, but his toothy smile often remains behind.
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Alice attends a tea party — which always happens at 6 pm — with the Mad Hatter, the March Hare and the Dormouse.
When Alice joins the Queen for a game of croquet, they use flamingoes as mallets and hedgehogs as balls.
The Queen's army is made up of a deck of cards.
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Mysterious parcels labeled "Eat me" or "Drink me" cause Alice to grow or shrink.
The caterpillar may be rude and dismissive, but he does give Alice one piece of useful information when he points out that eating mushrooms will help her grow or shrink.
While the Queen is liberal with the phrase, "Off with their head!," Alice learns from the Gryphon that no one is ever actually executed in Wonderland.
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Just 6 copies of the 1865 edition of the book survived to the present day. One sold at auction in 1998 for $1.54 million.
"Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There" came out in 1871, six years after "Alice in Wonderland."
In "Through the Looking Glass," Alice enters a Wonderland-like world by traveling through the mirror in her drawing room.
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In the "Alice in Wonderland" sequel, Alice enters the magical land as a white pawn, before she is eventually crowned queen.
Tweedledum and Tweedledee are rotund twins who spend most of their time finishing one another's sentences and fighting.
Despite their close association with Wonderland, the twins appear only in "Through the Looking Glass," not in the original novel.
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Tweedledum and Tweedledee recite this Carroll poem to Alice in "Through the Looking Glass."
The walrus and the carpenter trick oysters out of the sea and onto the shore so they can eat them, which makes Alice angry.
As the twins fight over ownership of a broken rattle, they are distracted by a crow, giving Alice a chance to run away.
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These two classic characters appear in the "Alice in Wonderland" sequel with different names, and are — thankfully — not quite as mad the second time around.
Carroll — or Dodgson — supposedly based the Dodo on himself. Thanks to his well-known stuttering problem, he often introduced himself as "Do-Do-Dodgson."
The first "Alice in Wonderland" movie was silent, eight minutes long and released in 1903.
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Disney's "Alice in Wonderland" came out in 1951 and was a mashup of both the original novel and its sequel.
"Alice in Wonderland" syndrome — which Carroll himself may have had — alters visual perception and can make people believe that things appear bigger or smaller than they really are.
The 1951 Disney flick did so poorly that it offset the company's profits from the successful "Cinderella," which was released the year before.
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The 2010 movie version of the children's classic featured a 19-year-old Alice returning to the Wonderland she remembered from her early years.
Depp played the Mad Hatter, while Mia Wasikowska took on the role of Alice.
Tim Burton was the director behind the 2010 version of the film, while James Bobin was picked to direct the 2016 Wonderland sequel.
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