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Quiz: On a Poet’s Birthday – Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

My New Year’s Resolution for 2021 is to read more poetry. So, this new series of quizzes, will take a poem by a famous poet on his or her birthday and ask you to fill in the missing words. The poem for this quiz comes from Alice Through the Looking Glass and is one of the greatest nonsense poems, Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll whose birthday is on January 27th.

  • Question of

    1

    • Toves
    • Toads
  • Question of

    2

    • Mimsy
    • Uffish
  • Question of

    3

    • Son!
    • Child!
  • Question of

    4

    • Bird
    • Man
  • Question of

    5

    • Sword
    • Knife
  • Question of

    6

    • Tumtum
    • Mutmut
  • Question of

    7

    • Flame
    • Fire
  • Question of

    8

    • Burbled
    • Screaméd
  • Question of

    9

    • Blade
    • Edge
  • Question of

    10

    • Galumphing
    • Lolloping
  • Question of

    11

    • Slain
    • Killed
  • Question of

    12

    • Chortled
    • Gurgled
  • Question of

    13

    • Gimble
    • Gumble
  • Question of

    14

    • Mimsy
    • Nimbsy

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