. Read this excerpt from Chapter I of Alice in Wonderland. Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table: she opened it and found in it a very small cake, on which the words "EAT ME" were beautifully marked in currants.
Based on your knowledge of the character and details in the text, which of these is the best prediction?
A. Alice will eat the cake because she wants to hide from the rabbit.
B. Alice will not eat the cake because she is scared of growing taller.
C. Alice will eat the cake because she is curious if it will make her grow.
D. Alice will not eat the cake because she loves the way it looks.
.Which sentence from Chapter IV of Alice in Wonderland best identifies this work as a fantasy?
A. She waited for some time without hearing anything more.
B. Alice heard the Rabbit say, "A barrowful will do, to begin with."
C."A barrowful of what?" thought Alice.
D. She ran off as hard as she could and soon found herself safe in a thick wood.
. Which sentence from Chapter IV Alice in Wonderland best identifies this work as a fantasy?
A. She waited for some time without hearing anything more.
B. Alice heard the Rabbit say, "A barrowful will do, to begin with."
C."A barrowful of what?" thought Alice.
D. She ran off as hard as she could and soon found herself safe in a thick wood.
16 Read the following excerpt from a student’s analytical essay.
Right away, it is pretty obvious that the Looking-Glass land is different from the real world because Alice sees a clock with a face and there are living chess pieces walking around.
Which is the best revision of this informal sentence?
A. The strangeness of the Looking-Glass world is immediately made known when Alice sees a clock with a living face and chess pieces that move around the room independently.
B. The Looking-Glass land that Alice steps into is way different from the real world, where we do not have things like living clocks and living chess pieces.
C. Even though the Looking-Glass land is really unusual, I would not mind going there myself to see things like clocks and chess pieces that are actually alive and kicking.
D. From the beginning, Alice is pretty brave about all the strange stuff she sees in the Looking-Glass land, and she is not at all bothered by the living clock and the living chess pieces.
. Read the excerpt from Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll.
“You ought to return thanks in a neat speech,” the Red Queen said, frowning at Alice as she spoke.
“We must support you, you know,” the White Queen whispered, as Alice got up to do it, very obediently, but a little frightened.
“Thank you very much,” she whispered in reply, “but I can do quite well without.”
“That wouldn't be at all the thing,” the Red Queen said very decidedly: so Alice tried to submit to it with good grace.
(“And they DID push so!” she said afterward when she was telling her sister the history of the feast. “You would have thought they wanted to squeeze me flat!”)
In fact, it was rather difficult for her to keep in her place while she made her speech: the two Queens pushed her so, one on each side, that they nearly lifted her up into the air: “I rise to return thanks – ” Alice began: and she really DID rise as she spoke, several inches; but she got hold of the edge of the table, managed to pull herself down again.
Which life experience best connects to the theme in the excerpt?
A. being pressured to dance when you do not want to dance
B. being invited to a dance by someone you really like
C. being taught how to dance by a talented teacher
D. being admired as the best dancer in a talent show
. Which detail from Through The Looking Glass is symbolic of the author, Lewis Carroll, being sad to see Alice Liddell grow up?
A. The White Knight repeatedly falls off his horse.
B. The White Knight asks Alice to wait and wave to him.
C. The White Knight tells Alice he invented a new pudding.
D. The White Knight leaves Alice at the end of the wood.
. Read the following excerpt from "Jabberwocky," by Lewis Carroll.
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
Using context clues, determine the part of speech for the word "income.”
A. noun
B. verb
C. adjective
D. adverb