Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Quotes Matching

Before taking this test, please read the novel, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll!

Please answer the questions to the best of your abilities by matching the people on the right to their quotes on the left. When you have answered all of the questions, click the "Check Answer" button. A box will pop-up with your score. Do not close until your score is printed or reviewed by your teacher.

"Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!"
"As if I would talk on such a subject! Our family always hated cats: nasty, low, vulgar things! Don't let me hear the name again!"
"I know what 'it' means well enough, when I find a thing it's generally a frog, or a worm. The question is, what did the archbishop find?"
"Everybody has won, and all must have prizes."
"He took me for his housemaid. How surprised he'll be when he finds out who I am!"
"Sure, it does, yer honour: but it's an arm for all that."
"Well, I hardly know -- No more, thank ye; I'm better now -- but I'm a deal too flustered to tell you -- all I know is, something comes at me like a Jack-in-the-box, and up I goes like a sky-rocket!"
"It is wrong from beginning to end."
"And just as I'd taken the highest tree in the wood. And just as I was thinking I should be free of them at last, they must needs come wriggling down from the sky! Ugh, Serpent!"
"For the Duchess. An invitation from the Queen to play croquet."
"There's no sort of use in knocking, and that for two reasons. First, because I'm on the same side of the door as you are: secondly, because they're making such a noise inside no one could possibly hear you."
"If everybody minded their own business, the world would go round a deal faster than it does."
"If you're going to turn into a pig, my dear, I'll have nothing more to do with you. Mind now!"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
"Why, you might just as well say that 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what I see'!"
"Suppose we change the subject. I'm getting tired of this. I vote the young lady tells us a story."
"Once upon a time there were three little sisters and their names were Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie; and they lived at the bottom of a well --"
"You'd better not talk! I heard the Queen say only yesterday you deserved to be beheaded."
"Why, the fact is, you see, Miss, this here ought to have been a red rose-tree, and we put a white one in by mistake; and, if the Queen was to find it out, we should all have our heads cut off, you know. So you see, Miss, we're doing our best, afore she comes, to --"
"She boxed the Queen's ears -- Oh, hush! The Queen will hear you! You see she came rather late, and the Queen said --"
"I'll fetch the executioner myself"
"It belongs to the Duchess: you'd better ask her about it."
"'Tis so, and the moral of that is -- 'Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love, that makes the world go round!"
"Have you seen the Mock Turtle yet?"
"This here young lady, she wants for to know your history, she do."
"We called him Tortoise because he taught us. Really you are very dull!"
"Give your evidence, and don't be nervous, or I'll have you executed on the spot."
"Collar the Dormouse! Behead that Dormouse! Turn that Dormouse out of court! Suppress him! Pinch him! Off with his whiskers!"
"Please, your Majesty. I didn't write it, and they can't prove I did: there's no name signed at the end."
"Wake up! Alice dear! Why, what a long sleep you've had!"

 

 

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Bingham, Illinois

updated: December 28, 2013

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