The Quiz: What is Alice doing before she starts following the White Rabbit?
Reading a boring book
Making a daisy chain
Petting her cat
Daydreaming
The first chapter of Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” describes a bored Alice impatiently peeking into a book her older sister is reading. Similarly, in Disney’s 1951 film “Alice in Wonderland,” her sister gives Alice a history lesson by reading an extremely dry textbook out loud. Alice wonders, in both cases, what use a book is without any pictures in it. Eventually, she spots the White Rabbit, who exclaims that he is late, and she follows him down a rabbit hole to Wonderland.
The correct answer to this quiz is Reading a boring book.