Getting Into Character

Question: Why is the Mad Hatter’s watch unusual?
Answer: In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the Mad Hatter wears a watch that tells the month but not, as Alice says, "what o’clock it is."
Question: Lord Peter Wimsey is a fictional amateur:
Answer: Lord Peter is the dashing gentleman-scholar, World War I veteran, and amateur detective at the heart of a lengthy series of mystery stories by the English writer Dorothy L. Sayers.
Question: In which of these works is Lucy Westenra a character?
Answer: Lucy Westenra is one of the hapless victims of the vampire in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula. Originally a sympathetic character, she becomes a menacing, night-prowling vampire.
Question: In Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick, what is Captain Ahab’s leg made of?
Answer: Captain Ahab’s artificial leg is made of whalebone. He seeks the great white whale, Moby-Dick, that took his leg from him.
Question: What dramatic character sold his soul to the devil?
Answer: In his play Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe portrayed Faust as a doctor who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge about the mysteries of nature.
Question: In Gulliver’s Travels the inhabitants of Brobdingnag are notable for their:
Answer: In Jonathan Swift’s 1726 satire, Gulliver travels to Brobdingnag, a country occupied by giants, where he becomes a sort of house pet to an enormous nine-year-old girl named Glumdalclitch.
Question: Who is the hero of Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book?
Answer: Mowgli, a young man, is the hero of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. The first story featuring Mowgli appeared in 1893.
Question: What kind of animals were Hazel, Campion, and General Woundwort?
Answer: The three rabbits were characters in Richard Adams’s 1974 novel Watership Down.
A Mad Tea Party. Alice meets the March Hare and Mad Hatter in Lewis Carroll's "Adventures of Alice in Wonderland" (1865) by English illustrator and satirical artist Sir John Tenniel.
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