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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 the name of the Cabby's wife?
(a) Nellie or Helen
(b) Elanor or Ellie
(c) Helen or Hetty
(d) Nellie or Ellen

2. What do the children smell when Fledge lands for the night?
(a) Fresh fruit and dry grass
(b) Woodsmoke and wildflowers
(c) Pine trees and mushrooms
(d) Earth, grass and flowers

3. Which of the following characters does not get dragged into the Wood Between the Worlds?
(a) The Cabby
(b) Uncle Andrew
(c) A policeman
(d) The Witch

4. What distinctive piece of clothing does the Cabby wear?
(a) A frock coat
(b) A top hat
(c) A Norfolk suit
(d) A bowler hat

5. What is the first thing that Digory does in the morning?
(a) He eats some of the fruit from the toffee tree.
(b) He has a swim or wash in a mountain river.
(c) He searches for the toffee tree.
(d) He has a drink from the river.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Digory reaches Aslan and his council?

2. Where does the Jackdaw perch after making (or being) the First Joke?

3. What does Uncle Andrew say that raises Digory's hopes and makes him very excited?

4. Who asks Aslan if Polly can go with Digory?

5. What color are the apples that Digory has to pick?

Short Essay Questions

1. What will happen to the Witch now that she has eaten an apple?

2. What does the Lion do that Digory does not expect?

3. Where do the dwarfs obtain the materials to make the crowns from?

4. Why does Aslan transform Strawberry into a flying horse and re-name him?

5. What does Digory have to do and why?

6. What things show that the place they have come to is a new world that is just beginning?

7. Why does Aslan call the Cabby's wife into Narnia?

8. In what way is the treatment of Uncle Andrew an example of poetic justice?

9. What arguments are put forward by the animals regarding which way up Uncle Andrew ought to be planted?

10. What does Strawberry the horse remember about his old life in London?

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