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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 do the children use to see where they are in the tunnel?
(a) Candles
(b) Flashlights
(c) Nothing - they feel their way in the dark
(d) Lanterns

2. Which phrase best describes the wood Digory finds himself in?
(a) Bleak, barren and sterile
(b) Stuffy, drowsy and soporific
(c) Noisy, exciting and lively
(d) Alive, quiet and rich

3. What is most striking about the last queen, apart from her beauty?
(a) Her cruel expression
(b) Her fierceness and pride
(c) Her unbelievably long hair
(d) Her height and strength

4. Who did Jadis fight for the throne?
(a) Her father
(b) Her cousin
(c) Her ex-husband
(d) Her sister

5. What would Polly call Aunt Letty?
(a) Miss Letitia
(b) Mrs Ketterley
(c) Miss Ketterley
(d) Miss Letty

Short Answer Questions

1. What interests Polly most about the Hall of Images?

2. What did Uncle Andrew find in that box?

3. Why does Jadis study Uncle Andrew's face?

4. Where does the Ketterley family originate?

5. Which piece of scientific equipment is on Uncle Andrew's desk?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is ironic about the chief policeman's question to Uncle Andrew?

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

3. Why does Digory wish he was older (or bigger)?

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

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

6. What does Digory say that actually gets Uncle Andrew's full attention and why does it have this effect?

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

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

9. Name three ways that Polly's attitude differs from Digory's in this chapter.

10. What do the children quarrel about?

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