ALICE IN WONDERLAND ANSWER KEY LEVEL 2

Before-reading questions
1 Reader’s own answer.
2 Sentences a and c are true.
3 Reader’s own answer.

During-reading questions
CHAPTER ONE
1 Alice is at the river with her sister.
2 She jumps after a White Rabbit.
3 She gets smaller.
4 She gets taller.
5 He drops his white gloves and fan.

CHAPTER TWO
1 She finds the White Rabbit’s house.
2 Because she drinks from a small bottle.
3 Because he wants to get the White Rabbit’s gloves and fan.
4 She sees a blue caterpillar.
5 Alice eats some of the mushroom in her right hand, and she gets smaller. She eats some of the
mushroom in her left hand, and she gets taller.

CHAPTER THREE
1 One man has the face of a fish, and the other man has the face of a frog.
2 Alice sees the Duchess, a baby, a cook and a Cheshire cat.
3 The Duchess gives the baby to Alice.
4 The baby changes into a pig.
5 The Mad Hatter lives to the right, and the March Hare lives to the left.

CHAPTER FOUR
1 The Mad Hatter, the March Hare and a Dormouse are at the table.
2 It tells you the day of the month, but not the time.
3 He can change time for lessons into time for lunch.
4 He sang at the Queen of Hearts’s party.
5 Time is not his friend, and it is always six o’clock and time for tea.

CHAPTER FIVE
1 They are playing cards.
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2 The Queen of Hearts stops in front of Alice and speaks to her.

3 Because the balls are hedgehogs, and the players use flamingos to hit the balls.
4 Alice sees the Cheshire Cat’s face in the sky.
5 She was late.

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CHAPTER SIX
1 The Jack of Hearts is in court.
2 There are twelve jurors in the court.
3 He is speaking to the Mad Hatter.
4 Alice does not know anything about the Queen’s tarts.
5 No, they are not real. They are part of Alice’s dream.

After-reading questions
1 The blue caterpillar helps Alice. It tells her about the mushroom and how to get taller and smaller.
/ The Cheshire Cat helps Alice. It tells her where the Mad Hatter and the March Hare live.
2 The March Hare is not nice to Alice. It offers her juice, but there is no juice. / The King of Hearts
is not nice to Alice. He says, “Very tall people must leave the court.” / The Queen of Hearts is not
nice to Alice. She says, “Cut off her head.”
3–5 Reader’s own answers.

Exercises
CHAPTER ONE
1 1 Alice was at the river with her sister, and she was bored.
2 Alice was surprised to see a Rabbit with a coat and watch.
3 Alice jumped into a rabbit-hole, and she came to a long hall.
4 All the doors in the hall were locked.
5 Behind a curtain, there was a little door.
6 The White Rabbit had some white gloves and a fan.

CHAPTER TWO
2 1 c 2 a 3 d 4 b

3 1 Alice drank from the bottle, and she started to grow bigger.
2 Alice put her arm out of the window and her foot up the chimney.
3 Alice kicked her foot, and Bill flew out of the chimney.
4 A small stone hit Alice’s face. Then, the stone was a cake.
5 The caterpillar came down from the mushroom and moved away into the grass.

CHAPTER THREE
4 1 Yes, he did.
2 No, he did not.
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3 Yes, she did.

4 No, it was not.
5 Yes, they were.
6 Yes, it did.
7 No, she did not.

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CHAPTER FOUR
5 1 false 2 true 3 false 4 true 5 true 6 false 7 false

6 1 Alice, the March Hare, the Dormouse and the Mad Hatter.
2 The table is in front of the March Hare’s house.
3 They are having a tea-party.
4 The Dormouse is sleeping.

CHAPTER FIVE
7 1 d 2 c 3 a 4 b

8 1 Alice opened the little door with the key.

2 The gardeners lay on the ground with their faces in the grass.
3 The Jack of Hearts was behind the Queen of Hearts.
4 Alice looked at her flamingo, and she laughed.
5 Alice saw the Cheshire Cat in the sky.
6 Alice was tired, and she sat under a tree.

CHAPTER SIX
9 Who spoke? Who to?
1 “Be quiet in court!” The White Rabbit Everyone in the court
2 What do you think? The King of Hearts Bill the lizard and the
Did the Jack steal the tarts?” other eleven jurors
3 “It isn’t my hat.” The Mad Hatter The King of Hearts
4 “Cut off its head!” The Queen of Hearts Everyone in the court
5 “I will not leave this court.” Alice The King and Queen of Hearts
6 “That was a strange dream! Alice’s sister Alice
Now let’s go home for tea.”

Project work
Reader’s own answers.
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