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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Bon-Sour-One-Frank as said in Chapter Ten?
(a) A French saying.
(b) Lewis' new pet.
(c) Lewis' name for poker.
(d) A new candy.

2. What do Lewis, Uncle Jonathan, and Mrs. Zimmerman find in Chapter Ten behind the coal bin?
(a) Mrs. Izard.
(b) A hole to Wonderland.
(c) A door with no keyhole.
(d) Uncle Jonathan's socks.

3. What happens to Mrs. Izard in Chapter Ten?
(a) She is reunited with Mr. Izard.
(b) She ends the world.
(c) She falls to the ground as a skull when the clock is smashed.
(d) She reforms to good.

4. What does Mrs. Corrigan ask Lewis in Chapter Nine?
(a) To not come back.
(b) To be better friends to Tarby.
(c) To not tell Tarby any more ghost stories.
(d) To take Tarby his lunch.

5. What does Hammerhandle yell at Lewis in Chapter Seven?
(a) To be friendly.
(b) To come into the house.
(c) To see the cool new hammer handles.
(d) To stay away from the house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chapter Eight say is Lewis' future profession?

2. What, in Chapter Nine, does Lewis like to stand on as he gets dressed?

3. What does Lewis touch on the mantlepiece in the Hanchett's house in Chapter Nine?

4. What does Lewis see in Chapter Eight on the outside of the mansion?

5. What does Uncle Jonathan say the omega sign means in Chapter Six?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lewis ask Uncle Jonathan about the Hanchett House in Chapter Eight? How does Uncle Jonathan respond?

2. What do Uncle Jonathan and Mrs. Zimmerman do in Chapter Six to cheer Lewis up? What happens when they are out?

3. How do they celebrate Christmas at the Barnavelt’s house in Chapter Eight? How does Lewis feel?

4. Why do Uncle Jonathan and Mrs. Zimmerman say Isaac Izard needed a clock in Chapter Eight? What else went wrong with Izard’s plan?

5. How does Uncle Jonathan say in Chapter Six that Izard’s tomb was marked? What did this symbol mean?

6. What does Lewis go to do in Chapter Nine? What does he learn there?

7. What does Hammerhandle tell Lewis in Chapter Eight? What does Uncle Jonathan say in response to this?

8. In Chapter Seven, Hammerhandle move across the street from Barnvault’s Folly. He is known for his mean temper and for being rumored to be able to tell the future. His name is from the handles he makes for Hammers and other instruments.

9. What happens in December that worries Uncle Jonathan as said in Chapter Seven?

10. What does Lewis do to confront the problem in Chapter Nine? What where does he go?

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