Chapter 2

1. Curiouser and curiouser!

2. She forgot how to speak good English

3. Oh dear, what nonsense I’m talking!

4. Oh! The Duchess, the Duchess! Oh! Won’t she be savage if I’ve kept her waiting!

5. Ah, that’s the great puzzle!

6. She’s she and I’m I

7. That was a narrow escape!

Chapter 3

1. I am older than you and must know better

2. This is the driest thing I know

3. Speak English! I don’t know the meaning of half those long words, and what’s more, I don’t believe you do either.

4. The best way to explain it is to do it.

5. The exact shape does not matter.

6. Everybody has won and all must have prizes.

7. Mine is a long and a sad tale.

8. You insult me by talking such nonsense!

Chapter 4

1. How queer it seems to be going messages for a rabbit.

2. I know something interesting is sure to happen whenever I eat or drink anything.

3. We must burn the house down.

4. I ought to eat or drink something or other; but the great question is, what?

Chapter 5

1. Explain yourself!

2. Who are you?

3. Keep your temper!

4. You are old, Father William,

And your hair has become very white;

And yet you incessantly sand on your head –

Do you think, at your age, it is right?

5. It is wrong from beginning to end.

Chapter 6

1. If everybody minded their own business, the world would go round a deal faster than it does.

2. I never could abide figures.

3. If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.

4. We’re all mad here. I’m mad, you’re mad...Or you wouldn’t have come here.

Chapter 7

1. No room, no room.

2. You shouldn’t make personal remarks, it’s very rude.

3. Why is a raven like a writing desk?

4. The Hatter’s remark seemed to have no meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English.

5. He’s murdering the time! Off with his head!

Chapter 8

1. That’s right five, (you) always lay the blame on others!

2. You deserve to be beheaded.

3. That’s none of your business.

4. If the Queen was to find it out, we should all have our heads cut off, you know.

5. Why, they are only a pack of cards, after all. I needn’t be afraid of them.

6. How should I know? It’s no business of mine.

7. A cat may look at a king.

8. They’re dreadfully fond of beheading people here; the great wonder is that there’s anyone left alive.

Chapter 9

1. Barley-sugar and such things make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that: then they wouldn’t be so stingy about it.

2. Everything’s got a moral if only you can find it.

3. ‘Tis love, ‘tis love that makes the world go round.

4. Shall I try the experiment?

5. The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.

6. Be what you would seem to be.

7. I think I should understand that better if I had it written down: but I’m afraid I can’t quite follow it as you say it.

8. We called him Tortoise because he taught us.

Chapter 10

1. You may not have lived much under the sea, and perhaps you were never even introduced to a lobster.

2. “Will you walk a little faster?” said a whiting to a snail.

3. I mean what I say.

4. Explanations take such a dreadful time.

5. That;s very curious.

6. I never heard it before but it sounds uncommon nonsense.

7. No accounting for tastes!

Chapter 11

1. I wish they’d get the trial done, and hand round the refreshments.

2. They’re putting down their names, for fear they should forget them before the end of the trial.

3. Consider your verdict – Not yet, not yet

4. The jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings & pence.

5. Don’t be nervous, or I’ll have you executed on the spot.

6. If I must, I must.

Chapter 12

1. – What do you know about this business? – Nothing. – Nothing whatever? – Nothing whatever? – That’s very important. – Unimportant, your Majesty means, of course.

2. That’s not a regular rule: you invented it just now.

3. – It seems to be a letter, written by the prisoner to – to somebody. – It must have been that, unless it was written to nobody, which isn’t usual, you know.

4. The jury all looked puzzled.

5. There was a general clapping of hands at this: it was the first really clever thing the King had said that day.

6. – Where shall I begin? – Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

7. – I don’t believe there’s an atom of meaning in it. – If there’s no meaning in it, that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn’t try to find any.

8. It’s a pun.

9. Stuff and nonsense.

10. Hold your tongue.

11. Who cares for you? You’re nothing but a pack of cards.

Task 4. Think of the Theme Analysis of the novel. Make use of the following suggestions

1. Alice in Wonderland is a coming of age story.

2. It is a story of how a young undisciplined child is growing into a wise youth.

3. I think, Alice’s changing from small to big symbolizes her experience in life.

4. There are some situations where she behaves like a child, where she does not understand some things, where she does not know some things because she is too young and inexperienced.

5. On the other hand, in other situations she behaves sensibly, she shows herself as a reasonable youth, she fights with stupidity around her.

6. The author underlines that one must learn that rules are essential to civil, adult life.

7. Without rules a society is like childish anarchy.

8. But if the rules are exercised blindly and cruelly, then it becomes a tyranny, which is still worse.

9. The message of the novel may be interpreted as follows. Alice should overcome the nonsense of the young and the old before she truly understands what adulthood is all about.

Task 5. Think of a character profile of any personage of the novel. Study a sample of a character profile of Alice. Prepare your own Alice’s character sketch, illustrate your points by the examples from the novel.

A Character Profile

Alice is an intelligent girl, who is going through the experiences of life, who is growing. She sometimes behaves like a child (give an example), sometimes like an adult (give an example). She is a cheerful girl, friendly, well-brought up, she knows manners (example). But sometimes she loses her temper, she may sound not polite enough (example). In some situations she is kind and warm-hearted (e.g. she & Duchess’s child). At other instances she is brave and not scared to protest against stupidity, absurdity (e.g. at the trial).

Task 6 Formulate Your Opinion of the Book

1. Did you enjoy the novel?

2. What do you think makes the novel English children’s classic?

3. Did you find interesting examples of puns in the novel?

4. Do you remember some picturesque examples of witty quotations?

5. Do you think Alice in Wonderland influenced the development of children literature in English?

6. What examples of modern fantastic novels can you give where we can feel the impact of Alice in Wonderland?

Task 7. Check-yourself tests

Test 1

Lewis Carroll’ Biography

Lewis Carroll was born in .......... and died in ............ He is famous as an author of two of the best-known and best-loved children’s books ever written.................................................................................. and ...................................................... He is also remembered for his neologisms and ............................... rhymes.

Lewis Carroll is the .........................................of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He invented this pseudonym by translating his two first names back into English from ................................. and reversing their order.

Lewis Carroll showed his talent for ............................... at an early age. He received ............................ education and became mathematical lecturer at .................................... where he worked until his retirement. He was ordained as a ........................................... in 1861, and did not have a family of his own. He was a shy man, handicapped by a ..................................... His self-consciousness was lessened only in the presence of .................................... .............................. Liddell, one of the daughters of the Dean of Christ Church, was the greatest among his “child friends”. He dedicated both of his ............................ to Alice.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was an instant success when it was first .................................... and together with Through the Looking Glass, has remained popular with ............................... and adults alike ever since.

Test 2

(Chapters 5 – 8)

1. Caterpillar will turn first into a chrysalis and then into a................... .

A serpent B butterfly C bird

2. Alice felt irritated because Caterpillar’s remarks were................ .

A short B rude C long

3. Caterpillar did not agree with Alice about the size because it was .......... high.

A 3 inches B 5 inches C 10 inches

4. Caterpillar advised Alice to bite off .................side of the mushroom.

A the right B the left C each

5. Alice ventured near an unknown house when she was .................. .

A 3 inches high B her normal height C 9 inches high

6. After Alice had laughed at the footmen in the wood and returned, she found ............ near the house .

A Fish-Footman B Frog-Footman C both Footmen

7. When the door of the Duchess’ house opened, a large ...................... hit the Footman’s head.

A plate B kettle C fire-iron

7. The air in the Duchess’s kitchen was full of ............... .

A pepper B sand C salt

7. At the end of every line of the lullaby the Duchess gave the baby a violent .................... .

A kiss B spank C shake

7. The Duchess was going to play ........................ with the Queen.

A cricket B caucus-run C croquet

7. Alice caught the baby who was ...................... like a steam-engine.

A snorting B crying C muttering

7. The cat’s appearing and vanishing so suddenly made Alice .................

A happy B giddy C laugh

7. The Cat vanished but his ................. remained some time after the rest of it had gone.

A tail B eyes C grin

7. The Hatter’s riddle was, “Why is a ............... like a writing –desk?”

A chair B raven C kitchen table

7. When the Queen heard Dormouse’s verse she bawled out, “He’s ................... the time! Off with his head.”

A murdering B beating C wasting

7. The last time Alice saw the Hatter and the March Hare, they were trying to put the Dormouse into the ............... .

A treacle B soup C teapot

7. The gardeners were painting roses...................

A red B blue C white

7. Alice saved the gardeners by putting them into a ........................

A pit B bush C flowerpot

19 Duchess was under sentence of execution because she had ..................

the Queen’s ears.

A boxed B beat C cut

20. The executioner couldn’t cut off the Cat’s head because there was no ................. to cut it off from.

A neck B tail C body

Test 3

(Chapters 5 – 8)

1. Alice comes into the garden and discovers that it is the ..................... garden. 2. There she finds several playing-card-shaped men painting the Queen's white roses ............ 3. This is because they accidentally planted a ...........rose bush instead of a red one. 4. Symbol Alert! Many scholars have been concerned with the literal symbolism of this scene. 5. That is, they take this scene as a reference to the War of the Roses, a powerful conflict in British ............ between the Lancastrian Family (the Red Roses) and the York Family (the White Roses). 6. Thus, the Lancastrian Queen is driving out the York roses as a statement of her ............ . 7. Sounds good, and in some sense it is true, but what could it possibly have to do with ........... and her quest for adulthood? 8. A popular Freudian argument (and one that I am inclined to agree with) makes sense of this ........... in the following manner. 9. The Queen is aging and therefore waning in her power (........... , mentally and spiritually). 10. At the same time, Alice is growing to adulthood, and beauty 11. As a mother dies, so the daughter rises to take her place. 12. Red here, then, is a symbol of youthful vigour. 13. The Queen is vainly ............ against the power of time. 14. We may choose this argument because it fits well in the overall argument of the novel. 15. It deals with the downside of growing up: growing........... 16. Also, it shows that sometimes young people believe that older adults resent the vigour of younger children. 17. And that is why older adults are annoyed with ........... people. 18. Unlike madmen like the Hatter and the Hare, Alice cannot overcome time, cannot freeze time, so she has to realize that when she grows up, someone else is growing old, and when she grows old, someone else has to.......... . 19. All that is hidden in a red ......... on a white rose. 20. White flowers are the ........... of a funeral, the flowers of death. 21. Anyway, Alice's meeting with the gardeners is cut short by the appearance of the Queen and her........... 22. Alice does not lay down like the other subjects and thus attracts the ............. of the Queen. 23. Alice introduces herself, but privately realizes that she need not be afraid because the court is only a .......... of cards. 24. Alice speaks courageously (almost rudely) to the Queen and the Queen demands that her .......... be chopped off for the offense against civility. 25. Nonsense! Alice cries. 26. The Queen seems to forget Alice at this, and the King thinks it is because Alice is only a.......... 27. In fact it is because Alice behaves like an adult with some sense. 28. That is, Alice has realized that you must be..............., but you must not become a slave to civility. 29. The Queen is such a slave to civility that any offense, in her eyes, should receive the penalty of.............. 30. The irony, as we shall see, is that she herself has become very .............. in the process. 31. The Queen only shouts, she never .............. loudly. 32. The Queen invites Alice to a game of............. 33. The game turns out to be a ............ with too many complications. 34. Live ............. for mallets, live ........... for balls, bent over soldiers for arches, nothing but ridges and furrows on the ground, and everyone must play at once without waiting for............. 35. Alice realizes that there is hardly any point at all in playing with the crazy............ 36. With no rules, like in Caucus Race, everyone ............. but the winning is meaningless. 37. With too many rules and a cruel control, everyone is sure to ........... and then die 38. Then Alice saw the Cheshire.......... 39. Alice notes that a cat may look at a........... , so he isn't being uncivil. 40. At this point, though, the King and Queen call for the cat's ...........to be chopped off.

41. Alice went to continue the ............... . 42. When she returned, she found the........... , the King and the Queen all arguing around the cat about something. 43. The executioner refused to cut off the cat's head because he had no........... 44. The King said that anything with a ............... could be beheaded. 45. The Queen threatened that everyone would be............ 46. But then the party dissolved because the ......... faded out of view. 47. The case with Caucus Race was absurd because there were no.......... 48. The game with the Queen was.............. because there were too many rules. 49. This chapter shows the contradiction between Sense and.................., which happens when there are too many rules as well as when there are no rules at all.

Test 4

(Chapters 9-12)

1. Alice thought that camomile makes people

A hot-tempered B bitter C sour

2. Alice felt uncomfortable because of Duchess’s ......... chin.

A sharp B big C heavy

3. The Duchess was ready to .................... with Alice about everything

A argue B discuss C agree

4. There were no arches left because the ................. had to leave off to take the players into custody

A King B guests C soldiers

5. The King said in a low voice to the company, “You are all ............”

A executed B pardoned C sentenced

6. The Mock Turtle was a ................ creature

A cheerful B funny C sad

7. At the Mock Turtle’s school the extras were: French, music and ..........

A washing B cooking C cleaning

8. According to Gryphon, who doesn’t know the meaning of to uglify, is

a ...................

A fool B simpleton C naive one

9. At the Mock Turtle’s school the .............. day was a holiday

A seventh B tenth C eleventh

10. A cry informing about the beginning of a .................... interrupted the Mock Turtle’s song

A trial B game C dinner

11. Alice recognised the ................ by his great wig

A Knave B juror C judge

12. One of the jurors, Bill the Lizard, wrote with his.............. for the rest of the day

A pencil B finger C feather

13. The first witness was .................

A the White Rabbit B the Knave of Hearts C the Hatter

14. The King asked the Hatter to give his ...................

A witness B evidence C teacup

15. One of the guinea-pigs cheered and was suppressed in a bag by...........

A sitting upon it B beating it C throwing it out

16. The Hatter hurriedly left the court without his ................

A shoes B hat C coat

17. “They all returned from him to you”. The King pointed to the ............ on the table

A cards B verses C tarts

18. “Then the words don’t fit you. It’s a ...................” the King added and everybody laughed

A joke B anecdote C pun

19. “Who cares for you? said Alice. At this the whole ...... rose up into the air, and came flying down upon her.

A pack B court C jury

20. And again a girl sat leaning her head on her hand, watching the setting sun, thinking of wonderful adventures. It was .............

A Alice B Alice’s sister C Alice’s friend

Test 5

(Chapter 12)

1. In her excitement, Alice stood up and knocked over the whole ......... box because she had grown big.

2. All of the .................. tumbled out onto their heads.

3. Alice put them all in their proper places and the .............. proceeded.

4. All of a sudden Alice felt like a girl with her toys, rather than a character in ....................

5. The King asked what Alice knew of the .............. .

6. And Alice replied that she knew..............

7. After some confusion regarding this, the King read a ..........from his book.

8. According to the rule that he had just invented, all persons more than a mile high should ........... the court.

9. He hinted at Alice but Alice...........

10. The White Rabbit found some ........... in the form of a letter.

11. The letter was written in...............

12. It was read and after all proved that all of the .........were right there before the king and that they had not been taken at all.

13. At this point the Queen demanded that they should ..............the Knave first, then should read the verdict.

14. Alice was old enough to know the right ............ of things.

15. There should be ............... first, and sentence after.

16. This started a fight between Alice and the..............

17. Then the whole pack of ...........rose up and flew at Alice.

18. At that moment Alice ...........with her head in her sister’s lap, both of them sitting at the edge of the river, as they had been in the beginning of the book.

19. Then Alice told her sister of the .........she had had.

20. And this might well be the .........of the book.

21. But instead, Carroll pulls the camera back, so to speak, and we see Alice's sister alone on the river's edge thinking of Alice's dream of...............

22. Alice's sister imagines how Alice will one day be a grown woman, and that she will have ................. and will tell the children her tales of Wonderland

23. And so, as we see, Alice has come full.........

24. She started out a child, but she has come out of Wonderland now prepared to be an...........

25. She has learned that to be an adult one should honour rules, but one should not follow the ........... blindly.

26. Alice now knows that in life the rules must be interpreted with a sense of justice and mercy, or they are as ............as no rules at all.

27. More importantly, Alice has learned that to be old, or big, is not necessarily to be an..............

28. For instance the Queen in her advanced years behaves like a stupid naughty...........

29. Another adult, The Hatter is completely..........

30. The Mock Turtle lives in her sad and nostalgic recollections of the........

31. Balance seems to be Lewis Carroll's answer to finding a happy........

Task 8. Dramatize a scene from the novel

Alice in Wonderland

(Ch 11, 12)

Who Stole the Tarts?

Author: The King and Queen of Hearts were seated on their throne. The Knave was standing before them, in chains, with a soldier on each side to guard him.

Alice: (looking at a large dish of tarts on the table) I wish they’d get the trial done and hand round the refreshments.

Author: Alice had never been in a court of justice before, but she had read about them in books, and she was quite pleased to find out that she knew the name of nearly everything there.

Alice: That’s the judge, because of his great wig. And those creatures are the jurors.

Alice (to the jurors): What are you doing?

Juror: We have nothing to put down yet, before the trial’s begun. So we’re putting down our names, for fear we should forget them before the end of the trial.

Alice: Stupid things!

White Rabbit: Silence in the court!

Juror (writing): Stupid things... But I don’t know how to spell stupid