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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 the car chase in Chapter Six remind Lewis of?

2. What do Lewis, Uncle Jonathan, and Mrs. Zimmerman ask in Chapter Ten where the magic clock is?

3. Who is in the picture that Lewis sees on the Hanchett's wall in Chapter Nine?

4. Who appears in Chapter Nine to help Lewis?

5. Where does Lewis find Tarby in Chapter Nine?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Uncle Jonathan, Mrs. Zimmerman, and Lewis find where the magical clock is in Chapter Ten?

2. Why does Lewis feel sick in the beginning of Chapter Seven? What does he realize he has done?

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

4. What does Lewis do after he sees his Aunt Mattie in Chapter Eight? What else does he see?

5. Why does the car in Chapter Six stop following them? What rule of magic does Uncle Jonathan say this relates to?

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

7. What does Lewis do when he realizes Mrs. Izard is behind them in Chapter Ten? What does he do?

8. In Chapter Ten, how do Uncle Jonathan, Mrs. Zimmerman, and Lewis say the Izard’s magic is? How do they say theirs is?

9. Who appears in the basement in Chapter Nine? What are they carrying?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the beginning of the novel, Uncle Jonathan says that magic works by using “solid everyday objects” (41). What does the novel show as the connection between the ordinary, or the everyday, and the magical, or the extraordinary? Write four pages with at least four textual examples.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

The repetition of motifs and symbols has deep roots in the Gothic tradition. What motifs and symbols are in the novel? And what genres of the Gothic are these connected to? Write three pages with at least four textual examples.

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