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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 is Lewis’s name as said in Chapter One?
2. What does Uncle Jonathan do in Chapter One when the clocks begin to chime midnight?
3. What does Uncle Jonathan use to create a reflection of the moon in Chapter Three?
4. What does Uncle Jonathan have on his table in Chapter One?
5. What is Uncle Jonathan’s magic staff described like in Chapter Three?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the first illusion scene that Uncle Jonathan pulls up in Chapter Four? What happens in it?
2. As Lewis waits to resurrect the dead in Chapter Five, what does he wish? What happens because of his thinking?
3. What does Lewis say he will do in Chapter Four in an attempt to keep Tarby’s interest? What does he plan with Tarby and how does he carry out this plan?
4. 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?
5. How do Lewis and Tarby become friends in Chapter Three? What does Lewis want to do for Tarby?
6. What is Lewis’ new challenge in Chapter Three? Why is he bullied?
7. What does Lewis hear when he is up reading a book at night in Chapter One? What does he see when he goes to investigate?
8. What does Lewis do to resurrect the dead in Chapter Five? What does he have to do to complete the spell and how does he do this?
9. 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?
10. Who previously owned Barnvault’s Folly as said in Chapter Two? What were the old owners like?
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
Edward Gorey’s illustrations are famously known for bringing to life the atmosphere of John Bellair’s novels. How do the illustrations in the novel show select choices of scenes to illustrate? How do the illustration increase the feelings of atmosphere and fear? Write three pages with at least four textual examples.
Essay Topic 3
While John Bellair’s the House with the Clock in Its Walls is in the Gothic tradition, it combines elements of different Gothic genres and also has introductions of new themes. Write a definition of the new form of Gothic Bellair is making in the novel, what traditions he is pulling from or transforming, what he adds, and why he adds this. Write four pages with at least four textual examples.
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