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Questions

1. What does the poet warn his son that he needs to shun? (1 mark)

2. What do you think a "vorpal sword" is? (1 mark)

3. What word class do you think galumphing (line 20) is? (1mark)

4. Why did our hero have to rest by the Tumtum tree? Explain your answer using evidence from the poem. ( 2 marks)

5. Did the hero kill the Jabberwock? Explain your answer using information from the poem. (2 marks)

6.  In the last stanza, the poet repeats the first stanza. What is the effect of this? (2 marks)

7. The poem is very similar to a fairy tale. Explain why, using evidence from the text. (2 marks)