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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 the Cook making?

2. Whom does Alice first meet at the ‘seaside’?

3. What animal does the Duchess’s footman resemble?

4. What does Alice pick up while falling through the rabbit hole?

5. What does the creature Alice meets at the seaside do when she mentions dogs?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the Cook important?

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

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

4. How does the caterpillar help Alice?

5. Why does everyone else leave the seaside?

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

7. Why does Alice think about Dinah?

8. Why does the caterpillar find Alice’s desires offensive?

9. Why does the Mouse tell his long story? Does he achieve his goals?

10. What is the significance of pepper in Chapter 6?

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

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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