Prologue

Reading Check

1. Alice’s Adventures Underground (Prologue)

Short Answer

1. Alyss feels upset and betrayed when she reads the book Dodgson has written. She thinks that he has made her memories into a silly children’s story, insulting the traumatic nature of Alyss’s history and betraying the trust she placed in him. Overwhelmed by shock and hurt, Alyss runs from Dodgson. (Prologue)

Part 1, Chapters 1-9

Reading Check

1. Redd (Part 1, Chapter 1)

2. Black and White (Part 1, Chapter 3)

3.  A golden kitten (Part 1, Chapter 6)

Short Answer

1. The Heart Crystal is the source of all creation in Wonderland. It is a giant crystal that stands at the center of Heart Palace; anything that passes through it inspires the inhabitants of other worlds and becomes reality there. (Part 1, Chapter 1)

2. Bibwit worries that if Alyss is not guided according to the principles of White Imagination, and her powerful imagination not disciplined, she may fall to the same twisted fate as Redd. (Part 1, Chapter 3)

3. Dodge is Alyss’s best friend. He is the son of palace guard Sir Justice Anders, and four years older than Alyss.