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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 Harry and Ron find in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom?

2. Who are the two professors that are teaching the Dueling Club?

3. What saves Harry and Ron from the spiders?

4. What happens when Harry writes on the diary?

5. Who enters the room before Harry leaves Dumbledore's office?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Harry and Ron overhear the teachers talking about in Chapter Sixteen regarding the Chamber of Secrets?

2. How does Gilderoy Lockhart plan to boost the school moral in Chapter Thirteen?

3. Why does Hermione volunteer to sneak into Professor Snape's storeroom?

4. What happens to the phoenix in Dumbledore's office while Harry is waiting on Dumbledore in Chapter Twelve?

5. What do Harry and Ron find when they follow the spiders into the Forbidden Forest?

6. What are the students saying about Harry after they find he can speak to snakes like Salazar Slytherin?

7. What goes wrong with Hermione's portion of the Polyjuice Potion?

8. What happens when Harry tells Tom Riddle that Dumbledore is the greatest wizard that ever lived and that people will always be faithful to Dumbledore.

9. What does Harry hear while lying in the hospital wing when Dumbledore brings in a petrified Collin Creevey?

10. What does Aragog tell Harry and Ron about the creature from the Chamber of Secrets?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are things in the book that point strongly in the direction of the Chamber of Secrets and the monster that lies within--Ginny and her odd behavior, the voice that only Harry can hear, and Moaning Myrtle. Take away one of these and explain how it would have changed the rest of the story and what it added to have it included.

Essay Topic 2

The Chamber of Secrets had been opened only fifty years ago. Many of the people at Hogwarts, such as the ghosts and teachers, were around at that time.

Part 1-Describe why they were so quick to dismiss the fact that the chamber was a myth and didn't exist.

Part 2-How would things have been different if the Chamber of Secrets had been taken as a more serious threat in the beginning?

Essay Topic 3

When the Chamber of Secrets was opened fifty years earlier there was a Muggle killed. At that point in time it was just Tom Riddle controlling the Basilisk. Do you think that it is possible that part of the reason that no one was killed is that Ginny was able to some very small extent to keep Tom Riddle under control while he worked through her? Explain.

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