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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Alice think she might have become?

2. Who is Alice with at the end of Chapter 3, on the bank of the sea?

3. What is the poem that Alice recites in Chapter 2 about?

4. What is the rabbit looking at when Alice first sees him?

5. What does the Duchess call her baby?

Short Essay Questions

1. How can Alice’s changes in size be read metaphorically?

2. How is the baby characterized in Chapter 6?

3. What is Alice’s main concern in Chapter 2?

4. Who is Alice afraid of in the Rabbit’s home? What does she do because of this?

5. Why might the White Rabbit be the first character Alice sees?

6. Describe the Caucus Race.

7. Why does Alice think about Dinah?

8. What is the significance of what happens to Alice in the Rabbit’s house?

9. Why does Alice have a hard time answering the caterpillar?

10. Whose house does Alice see after talking with the caterpillar?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Duchess and the Queen are both noble characters by title, but not temperament. Compare and contrast the two characters, highlighting their significance in the story.

Essay Topic 2

Alice tries to recite poems at various points in the novel. Find the original versions of these poems and compare/contrast them with the versions Alice recites. How are they different? What is the significance of this difference?

Essay Topic 3

Alice’s journey through Wonderland is rarely, if ever, prosaic and every-day. In what way might the book be read as a metaphor for real life? Are there aspects of the novel that refuse such a reading?

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