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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 Alice actually do next?

3. What music do they have while they dance?

4. How does the Queen want to execute people?

5. What subject did the Mock Turtle study that Alice did not?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Dormouse contribute to the tea party?

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

3. What does the Lobster Quadrille look like?

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

5. Why does the Duchess react in the way she does to Alice?

6. Describe the end of the trial and its significance.

7. What is happening to Alice during the trial?

8. Why are the witnesses chosen?

9. What is the correct answer to the riddle?

10. Describe what actually happens to those sentenced to beheading by the Queen.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The White Rabbit mistakes Alice for his housemaid. Discuss this case of mistaken identity in terms of the domestic elements of the book, and in terms of Alice’s own identity. Is this an understandable mistake?

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

The White Rabbit appears in most key scenes in the book. Why is this the case, and how might the White Rabbit’s character function as a metaphor?

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