What is the title of the final chapter of the novel?

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The final chapter of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is titled “Alice's Evidence.”

The chapter concludes the trial of the Knave of Hearts, who has been accused of stealing the Queen of Hearts' tarts. Alice has grown larger again and begins challenging the courtroom's absurd procedures. When the court demands evidence before it has properly established the facts, the trial becomes a comic display of arbitrary authority rather than a genuine search for justice.

“Alice's Evidence” is Chapter XII and brings together the book's recurring themes: unreliable language, shifting size, nonsense logic and resistance to intimidation. Alice finally rejects the Wonderland court's bizarre rules, declaring that its inhabitants are only a pack of cards. The cards then fly at her, and she wakes beside her sister on the riverbank.

Readers sometimes mistake “A Mad Tea-Party” for the ending because it is one of the most famous scenes, but it is Chapter VII. “The Pool of Tears” is Chapter II, while “Pig and Pepper” is Chapter VI. The final chapter therefore closes the dream rather than extending the tea-party plot.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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