Q 01/05

In which city was C. S. Lewis born in 1898?

A) Belfast

B) Dublin

C) Cork

D) Liverpool

Answer · why

A) Belfast

His father was a solicitor and his mother the first female mathematics graduate at Queen's College Belfast.

Q 02/05

How did Lewis come to be known as 'Jack' all his life?

A) It was his mother's pet name for him as a baby

B) Schoolfriends shortened his surname to Jack

C) He took his dead dog Jacksie's name at the age of four

D) He was named after his godfather Jack Hamilton

Answer · why

C) He took his dead dog Jacksie's name at the age of four

At first he answered to nothing but Jacksie; later he accepted Jack.

Q 03/05

What was the name of the animal-run fantasy world Lewis invented as a boy with his brother Warnie?

A) Animal-Land

B) Boxen

C) Narnia

D) Archenland

Answer · why

B) Boxen

He had fallen in love with Beatrix Potter's stories and wrote and illustrated his own animal tales.

Q 04/05

Lewis's mother Flora died in 1908 of what, when he was nine?

A) Tuberculosis

B) Influenza

C) Typhoid

D) Cancer

Answer · why

D) Cancer

His father then sent him to Wynyard School in Watford, which soon closed for lack of pupils.

Q 05/05

At which Malvern prep school, 'Chartres' in his autobiography, did Lewis abandon Christianity?

A) Wynyard School

B) Campbell College

C) Malvern College

D) Cherbourg House

Answer · why

D) Cherbourg House

He also developed a fascination with European mythology and the occult there.