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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 color is the Queen's skin?

2. What phrase best describes the palace in which they find themselves?

3. What unsettling thing does Digory hear one night coming from the attic?

4. What expressions are seen on the faces at the beginning of the row of images?

5. Which of the following does Polly not keep in the "smugglers' cave"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Polly start to believe that Uncle Andrew is not mad?

2. How can Jadis travel out of her world even though she is not wearing a magic ring?

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

4. What are the first things that Digory sees when he comes out of the pool and how does he react?

5. Summarize, in your own words, how Uncle Andrew obtained the dust used for making the rings.

6. Why is the Wood like the tunnel that the children had explored in the houses?

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

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

9. What do they decide to do with the guinea pig and why?

10. What does Aunt Letty believe about Jadis?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In many of C.S. Lewis's works, both fictional and non-fictional, selfishness and being self-centered is associated very strongly with evil. Explain some ways that this idea is illustrated in The Magician's Nephew.

Essay Topic 2

Problems and overcoming problems are very important to create plot tension. Describe one problem faced by a character in The Magician's Nephew and explain how this problem is overcome.

Essay Topic 3

The mountain garden where Digory takes the Apple of Life from is intended to represent or be the Narnian equivalent of the Garden of Eden. Describe the mountain garden in your own words, and explain what it does and does not have in common with the mythical Garden of Eden.

(Note: if appropriate, another mythological or legendary garden can be substituted for the Garden of Eden).

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