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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 is strange about Alice as a witness?

2. What does the jury remind Alice of, as she takes the stand?

3. Why is the Duchess not present?

4. What fish does Alice know only from eating it?

5. Why is the Mock Turtle crying?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the gardeners’ fate, according to the Queen? Does it come to pass?

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

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

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

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

6. What is the significance of the discussion Alice has with the Mock Turtle and the Gryphon?

7. What is a Mock Turtle? A Gryphon?

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

9. What is the correct answer to the riddle?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Alice changes sizes many times throughout the book. What is the significance of these changes, and how do they come about? What level of control does Alice have over these changes?

Essay Topic 2

Many characters are nervous or afraid of Alice, or other things, throughout the book. What is the nature of fear, as presented by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland? Is Alice ever afraid? What does this say about her character?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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