"through the prism" prompt.

[xMMKayx3]

I sighed and tapped my pencil on the desk, getting more bored by the minute. I could practically feel my brain cells pressing against each other and exploding for lack of activity. Wait, is that even possible? I thought.
“Twenty minutes are remaining,” Miss Riley’s voice cut through my thoughts like a knife through bread. I coughed and straightened slightly, once again wondering why we were having a vocabulary test in literature class. One of the 7 – or was it 8? – wonders of the world. I could see it right then, the “Fate of Brain Cells” drama being squeezed out of my noggin to make room for “Extremely Brain Cell Deprived Children Are Forced To Take Vocabulary Test In Literature Classroom – Officially 8th Wonder Of the World.”
I looked around the room, searching for something interesting to study, distracted from the packet in front of me. I dropped my pencil on the desk and leaned back in my chair, stretching and yawning. As I straightened up, I jumped as Miss Riley’s ruler came down hard on my desk with a sharp crack.
“Mr. Bivens. Would you care to name two classic novels written by none other than Lewis Carroll?”
“Lewis Carroll?” My mind was drawing a blank. Darn exploding brain cells.
“Yes.”
“Um… Alice in Wonderland… and… Through the…prism?” I stuttered. “Through the Looking Glass,” Miss Riley replied coldly, looking down at me over her reading glasses. “Mr. Bivens, I would advise you to get your head out of the clouds. It would certainly help you with your poor knowledge of classic literature.”
“Yes, ma’am,” I mumbled.
“Ten minutes are remaining,” she announced, walking back to the front of the room. I sighed and picked up my pencil, staring down at the vocabulary test.
What is an antonym for ‘enthusiastic?”
“Hey, that question’s easy!” I said to myself. Maybe I hadn’t lost so many brain cells after all.