Q 01/05

How many books make up The Chronicles of Narnia?

A) Five

B) Six

C) Seven

D) Nine

Answer · why

C) Seven

They were published between 1950 and 1956, and Aslan is the only character to appear in all of them.

Q 02/05

Who illustrated the original Narnia books in the 1950s?

A) Pauline Baynes

B) E. H. Shepard

C) Quentin Blake

D) Arthur Rackham

Answer · why

A) Pauline Baynes

Her pen-and-ink drawings have appeared in every edition since the 1950s.

Q 03/05

Which is the only Narnia book whose protagonists are not children from our world?

A) The Silver Chair

B) The Magician's Nephew

C) The Last Battle

D) The Horse and His Boy

Answer · why

D) The Horse and His Boy

Shasta and the talking horse Bree begin as captives in Calormen during the Pevensies' reign.

Q 04/05

Which book was published first, in 1950?

A) The Magician's Nephew (prequel)

B) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

C) Prince Caspian: The Return

D) The Horse and His Boy (Calormen)

Answer · why

B) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Geoffrey Bles released it in London on 16 October 1950; the prequel The Magician's Nephew was the last written.

Q 05/05

Which book, the last one Lewis wrote, tells the story of Narnia's creation?

A) The Last Battle

B) The Silver Chair

C) The Horse and His Boy

D) The Magician's Nephew

Answer · why

D) The Magician's Nephew

Completed in 1954 and published in 1955, it has been placed first in chronological-order editions since 1994; whether it belongs first or sixth is a l...