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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 do the characters in the Dormouse’s story draw?

2. What do the characters in the Dormouse’s story eat?

3. How are the birds used in the Queen’s game?

4. What earlier character reappears in the Queen’s procession?

5. What do the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle ask Alice to do after she finishes her story?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Alice welcomed to the Hare’s party?

2. What is happening to Alice during the trial?

3. What is a Mock Turtle? A Gryphon?

4. What literary device do the Mock Turtle and the Gryphon use?

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

6. What does the Duchess do that hurts Alice?

7. What does each witness contribute?

8. Describe Alice’s testimony.

9. Why does the Mock Turtle sing?

10. What does Alice tell the Queen about the gardeners? Why is this significant?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Cheshire Cat appears at various points in Alice’s journey. Discuss these moments and their significance in the story; how is the Cat characterized, and how does this inform our understanding of other characters in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Alice’s cat, Dinah, never appears as a character herself in the book, but is often mentioned by Alice. What is Dinah’s significance, to the story and to Alice? What does she mean for other characters, and what does this indicate?

Essay Topic 3

Alice finds the episode with the baby particularly disturbing. What happens to the baby? Discuss its transformation in tandem with Alice’s.

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