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           Alice in Wonderland
Reading Comprehension Worksheet           

Directions:  Read the passage below carefully. When you have finished reading it completely, answer the questions that follow.

	

Alice saw the White Rabbit, trotting slowly back and forth, and looking anxiously about as it went, as if it had lost something. She heard it muttering to itself "The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers! She'll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets! Where CAN I have dropped them, I wonder?"
	Alice guessed in a moment that it was looking for the fan and the pair of white kid gloves, and she very good-naturedly began hunting about for them. But they were nowhere to be seen.
 	Very soon the Rabbit noticed Alice, as she went hunting about, and called out to her in an angry tone, "Why, Mary Ann, what are you doing out here? Run home this moment, and fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan! Quick, now!"
Alice was so much frightened that she ran off at once in the direction it pointed to, without trying to explain the mistake it had made.
	"He took me for his housemaid," she said to herself as she ran. "How surprised he'll be when he finds out who I am! But I'd better take him his fan and gloves--that is, if I can find them."
	As she said this, she came upon a neat little house, on the door of which was a bright brass plate with the name "W. RABBIT" engraved upon it. She went in without knocking, and hurried upstairs, afraid she might meet the real Mary Ann, and be turned out of the house before she had found the fan and gloves.

Questions:

1)   What is the tone of this selection?

2)   What is the setting of this passage?

3)   What is the Main Idea of this passage?

4)   What seems to be the author's intent for writing this selection?