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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 distinctive about the doors leading into the Hall of Images?
(a) They have magical writing carved into the wood.
(b) They are made of a mysterious black metal.
(c) They look as though they are made of gold.
(d) They are studded with precious gems.

2. What does Aunt Letty fall onto?
(a) The matress she had been mending.
(b) Bare boards.
(c) The drawing room sofa.
(d) The carpet in the sitting room.

3. What color are the rings
(a) Red and yellow
(b) Green and yellow
(c) Green and blue
(d) Black and white

4. Which of the following did not happen to the guinea pigs that Uncle Andrew used for his experiments?
(a) They died
(b) They exploded
(c) They learned to speak
(d) They vanished

5. Which of Polly's hands is the Queen holding?
(a) Her right hand.
(b) Neither hand - the Queen is dragging her by her hair.
(c) Neither hand - Polly is running behind Digory and the Queen.
(d) Her left hand.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Jadis when she is in the Wood Between the Worlds?

2. What color is the sun in that world?

3. What spells or curses would Jadis cast on Andrew if he disobeys or betrays her?

4. What does the Cabby tell Jadis to do?

5. What phrase best describes the palace in which they find themselves?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is unusual about the ruins they find themselves in?

2. What surprises the children when they open the door and leave the tunnel?

3. Why does Jadis want to travel to our world?

4. What possibilities do the children suggest to explain the mysterious yell heard one night by Digory?

5. Summarize, in your own words, how Uncle Andrew obtained the dust used for making the rings.

6. Why did Uncle Andrew need two children for his "experiment" with the rings?

7. What do they decide to do with the guinea pig and why?

8. How can Jadis travel out of her world even though she is not wearing a magic ring?

9. What are the first things that Digory sees when he comes out of the pool and how does he react?

10. Why is the Wood like the tunnel that the children had explored in the houses?

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