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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. Why is Catherine almost late for the baking contest?

2. What does Catherine pull from Jest's hat during the Jabberwock's attack in the theater?

3. What does Catherine order White Rabbit to have removed from the garden?

4. What form of transportation does Jest use to take Catherine to the treacle well?

5. How many days after Catherine finally accepts the King's proposal is the wedding held?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the reason that the Marquess gives Catherine for not allowing her to open a bakery?

2. What does Peter reveal as the reason the Jabberwock tried to eat Cheshire and did eat Lion?

3. Why is Peter so angry to see Hatta in his pumpkin patch?

4. How does Mary Ann know that Lady Peter is the Jabberwock?

5. Why does Catherine bring the King a key lime pie?

6. Why did Catherine's father cry the first time she told him a story?

7. Why does Catherine try to bargain with Time after Jest dies?

8. How is Raven's fate of being a murderer fulfilled?

9. Why does Catherine grow increasingly frustrated with the way the King rules Hearts?

10. Why does Catherine decide that she will marry the King before going to the masquerade ball?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe how the author draws upon Carroll’s original work and the work of other authors in developing the Duke’s character. How is the Duke important to the theme of the gentry versus the common class? How does the author suggest to readers that he is important to the theme?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay describing how Meyer transforms Carroll’s original Mad Hatter character into the more modern Hatta and what her purpose was for the transformation.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay describing how the author uses wordplay throughout the novel. What inspiration does she draw from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland as well as other literary works? What is the purpose of using wordplay?

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