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Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll
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Summary & Analysis
Chapter 1: Looking-Glass House
Chapter 2: The Garden of Live Flowers
Chapter 3: Looking-Glass Insects
Chapter 4: Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Chapter 5: Wool and Water
Chapter 6: Humpty Dumpty
Chapter 7: The Lion and the Unicorn
Chapter 8: “It’s My Own Invention”
Chapters 9–12: Queen Alice; Shaking; Waking; Which Dreamed I?
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Character List
Alice
The Red Queen
The White Knight
Main Ideas
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Important Quotes Explained
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Themes, Motifs and Symbols
Chapter 1: Looking-Glass House
Chapter 2: The Garden of Live Flowers
Chapter 3: Looking-Glass Insects
Chapter 4: Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Chapter 5: Wool and Water
Chapter 6: Humpty Dumpty
Chapter 7: The Lion and the Unicorn
Chapter 8: "It's My Own Invention"
Chapters 9-12: Queen Alice; Shaking; Waking; Which Dreamed 1?
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1
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What was Lewis Carroll's real name?
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Henry George Liddel
Christopher George Dodson
Ludwig Wittenstein
2
of 5
Carroll was a lecturer in what subject at Christ Church, Oxford?
Literature
Art history
Mathematics
Biology
3
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At the time that Alice in Wonderland was published, the only part of the book to receive positive praise was ___.
The rhymes
The characters
The illustrations
The social satire
4
of 5
In what year was Through the Looking-Glass published?
1866
1871
1873
1881
5
of 5
The Liddell family, whose daughter was an inspiration for the character of Alice, cut ties with Lewis Carroll in the early ___.
1840s
1850s
1860s
1870s
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