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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of ring takes you into the Wood between the Worlds?

2. What interests Polly most about the Hall of Images?

3. How do the children mark the pool leading back into our world?

4. What is the name of Digory's mother?

5. What emotion does the Queen show when she realizes the palace is breaking up?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Uncle Andrew need two children for his "experiment" with the rings?

2. What possibilities do the children suggest to explain the mysterious yell heard one night by Digory?

3. Why does Jadis want to travel to our world?

4. Why did Jadis speak the Deplorable Word?

5. How is Jadis different from a human from our world?

6. Why does Aunt Letty give Uncle Andrew such a tart reply when he asks to borrow some money from her?

7. Why is Digory crying when Polly first meets him?

8. Why does Digory wish he was older (or bigger)?

9. What is ironic about the chief policeman's question to Uncle Andrew?

10. What crucial piece of knowledge does Digory not know about the Witch?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare Digory's house in London at the start of the book and what it is like at the end. How has the house changed? Consider physical changes, and also symbolic changes with respect to the theme of Life versus Death.

Part 1: Describe Digory's house at the beginning of the novel.

Part 2: Describe how Digory's house changes by the end of the novel.

Essay Topic 2

The Magician's Nephew has, as one of its key themes, the antithesis between life and death/destruction. Describe two or three ways that theme is illustrated in The Magician's Nephew. Which force is shown to predominate?

Essay Topic 3

We are only told about two of the other worlds that can be reached using the magic rings and the pools in the Wood Between the Worlds. Create a new world of your own and describe it in detail. How is it different to the real world and how is it the same?

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