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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 phrase does Uncle Andrew use to justify his unethical actions?
(a) I am the great scholar, the adept who is doing the experiment.
(b) I will not be talked to like that by a little, dirty schoolboy.
(c) You will keep looking at everything from the wrong point of view.
(d) Ours is a high and lonely destiny.

2. What expressions are seen on the faces at the beginning of the row of images?
(a) Wise and cruel
(b) Solemn and dignified
(c) Kind and wise
(d) Proud and cruel

3. What color is the sun in that world?
(a) Orange
(b) Red
(c) Yellow
(d) Purple

4. What unsettling thing does Digory hear one night coming from the attic?
(a) A strange humming sound
(b) A yell
(c) A peculiar smell
(d) A weird flashing light

5. What color of light does Digory notice overhead first after putting on the yellow ring?
(a) Yellow
(b) Green
(c) Purple
(d) White

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Digory see the writing?

2. What is the name of the city?

3. How many nobles did the Queen's great-grandfather kill in the banqueting hall?

4. What two living things (other than trees) does Digory see in the wood?

5. What was the name of Uncle Andrew's godmother?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the rings actually work for traveling from world to world?

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

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

4. Why does Polly start to believe that Uncle Andrew is not mad?

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

6. Name three things Jadis does or says that demonstrate her self-centered nature.

7. Why does Aunt Letty give Uncle Andrew such a tart reply when he asks to borrow some money from her?

8. Why is Digory crying when Polly first meets him?

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

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

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