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

Belfast. He said the nearby Mourne Mountains, seen in a certain light, made him feel a giant might raise his head over the next ridge, and they helped...

Q 02/05

By his stepson's account, why was Lewis known as 'Jack'?

A) His mother nicknamed him at birth

B) He renamed himself after his dog

C) Army comrades gave him the name

D) He was named after his godfather

Answer · why

B) He renamed himself after his dog

He renamed himself after his dog. When Jacksie was killed in an accident, the small boy said he would answer to no other name; no document confirms th...

Q 03/05

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

A) Gondal

B) Boxen

C) Narnia

D) Archenland

Answer · why

B) Boxen

Boxen. It began as Jack's own Animal-Land, peopled by 'dressed animals' and knights, and took its name when the brothers joined it to Warnie's imagina...

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

Cancer. She died on her husband's birthday, and the Shakespeare line on that day's calendar, 'Men must endure their going hence', is now carved on her...

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

Cherbourg House. He was happy there and made his first real friends, yet wrote that he dropped his faith 'with no sense of loss but with the greatest ...