The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Book Quiz
Eight multiple-choice questions on C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) — plot, characters and the moments everyone quotes. Two minutes, instant score, every answer explained below. For the full mixed-classics version, take the original book quiz — 15 questions across the whole canon.
All 8 questions and answers
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- How do the Pevensie children first reach Narnia? — Through the wardrobe during hide-and-seek. Lucy finds the way during a game; the others believe her only when they all step through together while hiding from tourists in the house.
- What has the White Witch done to Narnia? — Made it always winter and never Christmas. Her spell is the book's most quoted line for a reason: permanent winter without the feast is the exact shape of a joyless regime.
- Which sibling betrays the others? — Edmund, bribed with enchanted Turkish delight. Edmund's treachery is bought with sweets and the promise of a princedom — the book never mocks him for it, which is why his rescue matters.
- What does the Witch say the Deep Magic entitles her to? — The blood of every traitor. 'Every traitor belongs to me' — the law that makes Edmund's pardon legally impossible and sets up the book's central bargain.
- What saves Edmund from the Witch's claim? — Aslan dies in his place on the Stone Table. The substitution is the book's spine: the innocent volunteers, the Witch takes him at night, and the Table cracks at dawn.
- What does the Deeper Magic do that the Witch did not know? — When a willing victim dies for a traitor, Death works backwards. She knew the law only as far back as the dawn of time; the magic from before it turns her tidy legal murder into a resurrection engine.
- Who leads the army at the battle of Beruna? — Peter, fighting as High King. Peter commands while Aslan is dead; Edmund's real redemption is charging the Witch herself to snap her wand, and nearly dying for it.
- How does the story end for the four children? — Crowned kings and queens at Cair Paravel, then home through the wardrobe. Years of reign compress into a hunt for a white stag, and the lamp-post brings them back through the coats as children again — no time passed.
About The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Four children sent to the countryside to escape the Blitz push through a wardrobe of fur coats into a country where it has been winter for a hundred years and Christmas never comes. The book that defined children's fantasy for seventy years is short, fast, and far stranger than its adaptations — a fairy tale with a winter at the center and a resurrection in it. The novel runs about 38,000 words (roughly 172 pages in a standard paperback) — about 2 hours and 40 minutes of reading at an average pace. Before you commit, see the full breakdown in how long it takes to read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe or calculate reading time for any other book.
Easy — a children's classic in the best sense: plain sentences, short chapters, one idea per scene. An adult reads it in an evening and feels the cold of the wood for a week. If you get 6 or more of the eight questions right, the book clearly stuck.
What this quiz covers
C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe sits in our epic, adventure & fantasy shelf, and the eight questions follow the book the way a reader experiences it: how the story opens, the turn in the middle, the characters who carry it, and the ending people still argue about. You will not be asked for page numbers or publication trivia — but three or four questions are built to separate people who read the book from people who read a summary. If a question stumps you, that gap is your reading list talking.
Fair warning for the ambitious: readers who clear this quiz often move straight to the reading-time breakdown for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to plan the reread, then test the rest of their shelf against the mixed classic literature quiz.
More book quizzes
The Odyssey quiz, Moby-Dick quiz, Don Quixote quiz, Alice in Wonderland quiz, 1984 quiz, Animal Farm quiz, Brave New World quiz — or browse every book quiz on the site. For scale, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is the 116th longest of the 133 classics timed here — shorter than Heart of Darkness but longer than The Tale of Despereaux.
Doing the whole author? Our Chronicles of Narnia books in order guide lists every book with the best entry point.
Frequently asked questions
How many questions are in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe quiz?
Eight multiple-choice questions covering C. S. Lewis's plot, characters and most famous moments. The quiz takes about two minutes and your score is instant.
Is the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe book quiz free?
Yes — no signup, no email, nothing to install. Answer the eight questions and get your score immediately.
What score should I aim for?
8/8 means you know the book cold; 6+ is a solid score. Below 4, the book is calling you back for a reread.
Is the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe quiz hard?
Easy — a children's classic in the best sense: plain sentences, short chapters, one idea per scene. An adult reads it in an evening and feels the cold of the wood for a week. The questions themselves stick to famous, load-bearing moments — the scenes and lines the book is remembered for — so a genuine read usually scores 6+.
How long is the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe reading itself?
About 38,000 words — roughly 172 pages, or about 2 hours and 40 minutes at an average pace. The full pace breakdown is in how long it takes to read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. It runs 17 chapters, averaging 2,235 words each; see the book-count guide for its full structure.