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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 does Uncle Jonathan have on his table in Chapter One?

2. What does Lewis draw in Chapter Five for the resurrection?

3. What is the town that Lewis is going to live in, as said in Chapter One?

4. What does Uncle Jonathan do with the reflection of the moon in Chapter Three?

5. Which tomb do Lewis and Tarby decide to resurrect in Chapter Four?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who previously owned Barnvault’s Folly as said in Chapter Two? What were the old owners like?

2. What is Lewis’ impression of Uncle Jonathan at the end of the night in Chapter One?

3. What is strange to Lewis about playing poker in Chapter One?

4. What does Uncle Jonathan do in Chapter Three to make the moon disappear?

5. What does Lewis do for the three weeks he has before school starts in Chapter Two? Why does he like doing this?

6. Why does Uncle Jonathan have so many clocks as he tells Lewis in Chapter Two? How does this relate to the previous owners of the mansion?

7. Where is the cemetery in relation in New Zebedee as described in Chapter Five? How does Lewis get there?

8. What happens when Uncle Jonathan hears a clock when he picks Jonathan up in Chapter One? What does Lewis observe about Jonathan when he is walking with him to the mansion?

9. As Lewis waits to resurrect the dead in Chapter Five, what does he wish? What happens because of his thinking?

10. How does Uncle Jonathan explain to Lewis that magic works in Chapter Two? How is this different than Lewis’ previous idea?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Light and dark dichotomies are typically used in the Gothic to illustrate good versus evil. How does the novel use this typical color palette to heightened literary effect? Find two examples from the text to support your response. Then look at how the novel uses other colors. What other colors and forms of light does the novel incorporate? How does it create a new palette of the Gothic and why does it do this? Make sure to consider that Barnavelt's Folly has had two recent owners. Use at least four examples in four pages for your overall answer.

Essay Topic 2

While the novel is a mystery about the clock in the walls, as it says in the title, the main events of the novel are written on the book cover. How does this change what it means to read a mystery? Why is it changed in this way? Write three pages with at least four textual examples.

Essay Topic 3

How does Lewis find courage in the novel? Look at his interaction with Tarby in Chapter Nine, as well as two other examples. Consider how outside poems, songs, and other words allow Lewis to find courage. What is the novel saying about where courage comes from? Write three pages with at least four textual examples.

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