Chapter 7

through the looking glass

A2. Answer these questions.
1. What surprised Alice in the garden?
Ans. Alice was surprised to hear the flowers in the garden
speak.

2. Who was expected to protect the other plants in

emergencies? How?
Ans. The tree was expected to protect the other plants in
emergencies by saying ‘bough-wough”.

3. How was the ground in the garden of live flowers different

from other Gardens? How did it enable the flowers to talk?
Ans. The hard ground kept the flowers fresh and alert. They
did not feel sleepy and were active all the time. Therefore, the
hard ground helped the flowers to talk. In other gardens, as
the ground was soft, the flowers felt drowsy and slept all the
time

4. Write down the flowers’ description of the Queen.

Ans. The flowers described the Queen as another moving
flower in the garden, like Alice. the Queen has an awkward
shape but is redder in colour and possesses shorter petals than
Alice. They also say that, unlike Alice, the queen’s petals are
not tumbled out and tied up close like the dahlia flower.
 5. What did the Queen tell Alice about the different squares?
Ans. The queen instructs Alice on how she will meet different
elements and persons in the squares, like Tweedledum and
Tweedledee in the fourth square, water in fifth , Humpty
Dumpty in sixth, forest in seventh and when she reaches the
Eighth Square, she'll be a queen..

A3. Answer these questions with reference to the context.

1. ‘If you don’t hold your tongues, I’ll pick you.”
a. Who are ‘you’ and ‘I’ here?
Ans. You refer to daisies and I refers to alice
b. What, according to you, would have been the listener’s
reaction after hearing the speaker’s remark?
Ans. The listener got frightened and silent after hearing
speaker’s remark.
c. What would happen to the listeners if they were
picked?
Ans. They might die.

2. ‘Her petals are done up close, almost like a dahlia, not

tumbled about Like yours.’
a. Who said this and to whom?
Ans. Tiger lily said this to Alice.
b. What did the speaker refer to as ‘petals’?
Ans. Arms and legs.
c. What do you think they thought ‘she’ was?
Ans. The thought she was also a movie flower in the
garden.