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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 animal does the Duchess’s footman resemble?

2. Who reappears at the beginning of Chapter 4?

3. How does the White Rabbit address Alice?

4. What is the caterpillar sitting on?

5. What is the Cook making?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Alice think of her body changing size?

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

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

4. How is the baby characterized in Chapter 6?

5. Describe the Caucus Race.

6. How does Alice feel about the Duchess in Chapter 6?

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

8. Why does everyone else leave the seaside?

9. Whose house does Alice see after talking with the caterpillar?

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

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

The character of Alice was based on a real girl, an acquaintance of Lewis Carroll’s. In what way can we see the ‘real’ person’s characteristics?

Essay Topic 3

At the end of the novel, all of the characters present turn into cards. Other than the King, Queen, and Knave, how might this apply to the other characters? What is the broader metaphorical significance of this change?

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