Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Level: upper intermediate

Questions on the text

Answer the following questions.

1. What surprised Alice about the Rabbit?
   It was a White Rabbit with pink eyes.
   The Rabbit could talk.
   It had a watch.
2. What does »I wish I could shut up like a telescope!« mean?
   She wished she had a telescope.
   She wished she could make herself smaller.
   She wished she had not said or done anything.
3. Why didn't Alice drink from the bottle right away?
   She wanted to find out, whether the bottle contained any poison.
   She was not able to read the label.
   She was afraid because the bottle had not been there before.
4. What did Alice do when she was small enough to pass through the door?
   She went into the garden at once.
   She noticed that she had left the key on the table.
   She became hungry and ate a cake first.
5. What did Alice think the cake would make her do?
   She thought it would make her grow larger.
   She thought it would make her grow smaller.
   She thought it would make her either grow larger or smaller.

Stylistic devices

Mark the stylistic device used in each sentence.

1. »The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel ...«
   metonymy metaphor simile
2. »Down, down, down.«
   flashback parallelism repetition
3. »... away went Alice ...«
   inversion paradox rhetorical question