Q 01/05

How many books make up The Chronicles of Narnia?

A) Five

B) Six

C) Seven

D) Nine

Answer · why

C) Seven

Seven books make up the Chronicles, published between 1950 and 1956; Aslan is the only character who appears in all seven.

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

Pauline Baynes drew the pen-and-ink illustrations for all seven original Narnia books, having earlier illustrated Tolkien's Farmer Giles of Ham.

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

The Horse and His Boy follows Shasta and the talking horse Bree fleeing Calormen during the Pevensies' reign; none of its heroes come from our world.

Q 04/05

Which book was published first, in 1950?

A) The Magician's Nephew

B) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

C) Prince Caspian

D) The Horse and His Boy

Answer · why

B) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was published in London on 16 October 1950, the first of the seven Narnia books to appear.

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

The Magician's Nephew, completed in 1954 and published in 1955, tells of Narnia's creation; HarperCollins moved it to first place when it renumbered t...