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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. What does Alice find most difficult about the Queen’s game?

2. What does the Queen want to hear before the verdict?

3. What story does Alice tell the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle?

4. At the tea party, they sing “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little ____."

5. What is the problem with the Duchess’s reaction to Alice?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens suddenly at the end of Chapter 10?

2. Why does the Duchess react in the way she does to Alice?

3. What is a Mock Turtle? A Gryphon?

4. What is happening to Alice during the trial?

5. Who comments on what is happening to Alice first? What does he or she say?

6. What rule does the King say Alice is breaking? What issue does Alice take with this?

7. What does each witness contribute?

8. How does the letter ‘prove’ the Knave’s guilt?

9. Why is the Mock Turtle different from other characters in the novel?

10. Why does the Duchess leave for the second time?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many things in Wonderland are not what they seem. What items transform in the book? Pick three meaningful transformations and discuss them in the context of Alice’s own transformation. How are they meaningful?

Essay Topic 2

Alice takes issue with some of the aspects of the trial. Which aspects trouble her, and how does she respond to them? In what ways is the trial unusual?

Essay Topic 3

Alice’s sister thinks about Alice’s adventures after Alice has awakened. Describe these musings. What is the significance of her thoughts?

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