"What's an automobile?"
"Why, a carriage that runs of itself." The car started, and Alice understood without further explaining. She couldn't ask any more questions, because the rapid motion quite took away her breath.
Betty asked Alice to spend the night with her, and promised that next morning she would take her to town and show her some more of the sights of the New Wonderland. She went to sleep feeling that after all it wasn't such a humdrum world, and that she had taken for granted a great many things that, when you came to think of it, really made life a fairy tale, and the world Wonderland.
—Mabel Dodge Holmes
Questions
1. Alice was no more surprised than any little girl of 1850 would be. What has happened in the world since that time to make it a Wonderland?
2. Why was the telephone a wonder to Alice?
3. Make a list of the wonders Betty showed Alice. Add to this list any similar wonders that you could show her in your house.
4. Can you think of some of the wonders that Betty showed Alice in their trip to the city?
[BRISTOL]
Here is an account of the City of Bristol taken from an encyclopedia. Without reading the whole account, find as quickly as possible the answer to each of the following questions, in order.
1. Where is Bristol?
2. Is it an attractive city?
3. Is it an industrial city?
4. Is it a healthy city?
5. Are there many public buildings there?
6. If you had children could they be well educated there?
7. Has it had any famous citizens?
8. Is it a seaport or an inland city?
9. Is it a large city?