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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 type of job does Alice get in Chapter 31?

2. How long has Alice been in the Hinterland, as she learns in Chapter 30?

3. Whom does Alice discover dancing inside the Hazel Wood in Chapter 22?

4. In Chapter 26, Alice learns she has a chance to escape her story if she can do what to it?

5. According to Althea in Chapter 23, whom did she beg to gain entrance to another kingdom?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Janet? What does she do in the Hinterland?

2. What information does Alice learn from the American refugee in Chapter 24?

3. How does Alice use the bone in Chapter 21?

4. How does Alice finally escape her story in Chapter 29? Who helps save her?

5. According to Janet in Chapter 25, how did she and Althea meet?

6. What happens when a suitor finally completes Princess Alice's task, as explained in Chapter 29?

7. How does Alice use the feather in Chapter 21?

8. Where does Alice find herself in Chapter 20? What instructions is she given?

9. What promise did Finch make, according to Finch in Chapter 19? How does he feel about this promise?

10. How does Twice-Killed-Katherine taunt Alice in Chapter 19? How does Alice respond?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do you think Alice will fare in the real world without her “ice”? Predict the future for Alice and Ella using their thoughts and actions seen throughout the novel.

Essay Topic 2

Analyze how the novel’s setting influences the novel’s plot, characters, and themes.

Essay Topic 3

Alice finds herself involved in several conflicts over the course of the novel. Choose one instance of internal conflict and one instance of external conflict, and explain how these conflicts have an impact on the story and the characters involved.

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