Alice in Wonderland – Down the Rabbit Hole Question Answer for 4th Semester, Class XII.
Short Answer Type Questions (SAQ) and Answers carrying 2 marks.
Question: What is the source of the text? In which year was it published?
Ans: The source of the text is ” Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”.
It was published in 1865.
Question: Who is the author of the fantasy “Down the Rabbit Hole” ? What is his original name?
Ans: The author of the fantasy “Down the Rabbit Hole” is Lewis Carroll.
His original name is Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.
Question: How did the rabbit-hole go down?
Ans: The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way. Then it dipped suddenly down.
Question: Where did Alice imagine herself getting to? What distance, according to her, did she fall?
Ans: Alice imagined herself getting somewhere near the centre of the earth.
She fancied that she fell four thousand miles down.
Question: What did Alice notice when she looked at the sides of the well?
Ans: When Alice noticed at the sides of the well she found to her surprise that they were filled with cupboards and bookshelves. Here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon the pegs.
Question: What flavours did the drink have?
Ans: The drink had a mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pineapple, roast turkey, toffy and hot buttered toast.
Question: What happened after Alice ate the cake?
Ans: After Alice had eaten the cake she found to her surprise that she grew neither taller nor shorter. She remained the same size.
Question: Where was the glass box? What did it contain?
Ans: The glass box was under the table. It contained a small cake.
Question: Where was Alice sitting in the beginning of the story and with whom?
Ans: Alice was sitting on the river bank in the beginning of the story. She was sitting there with her sister.
Question: What did Alice find on the table on the second occasion?
Ans: Alice found a little bottle on the table. A paper label was tied round the neck of the bottle with the words “DRINK ME” printed on it in large letters.
Question: How was the garden?
Ans: The garden was large and lovely. There were beds of bright flowers and cool fountains around the garden.
Question: What did Alice feel so tired of and why?
Ans: Alice felt so tired of sitting by her sister on the river bank because she had nothing to do and her sister was busy reading a book.
Question: What did Alice see when she was thinking of making a daisy chain?
Ans: When Alice was thinking of making a daisy chain, she suddenly saw that a white rabbit with pink eyes ran close to her.
Question: What was lying under the table? What did Alice find when she opened it?
Ans: A little glass box was lying under the table.
When Alice opened it she found a small cake.
Question: What was written on the small cake and how?
Ans: The words “EAT ME” were beautifully marked in currants on the little glass box.
Question: “… it didn’t sound at all the right word” – What was the word? Why was Alice glad after saying the word?
Ans: The word was ‘Antipathies’.
Alice was glad because there was no one in the rabbit-hole to listen to her calling a certain people ‘the Antipathies’, which did not sound at all right to her.
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