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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. Which of the following does Polly not keep in the "smugglers' cave"?

2. What color are the doors that the Queen blasts?

3. What is the name of the housemaid?

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

5. What color rings are the children wearing when they first jump into the new pool?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the children quarrel about?

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

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

4. How is Jadis different from a human from our world?

5. Why did Jadis speak the Deplorable Word?

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

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

8. What does Digory plan to do with his magic rings?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Some people claim that conflict is essential to create plot tension. With whom does Digory conflict? Choose one of his conflicts, describe it and explain how this conflict is resolved.

Part 1: List the other characters with whom Digory is in conflict.

Part 2: Choose one of these conflicts and describe it.

Part 3: Explain how this conflict is resolved.

Essay Topic 2

The mountain garden where Digory takes the Apple of Life from is intended to represent or be the Narnian equivalent of the Garden of Eden. Describe the mountain garden in your own words, and explain what it does and does not have in common with the mythical Garden of Eden.

(Note: if appropriate, another mythological or legendary garden can be substituted for the Garden of Eden).

Essay Topic 3

Compare Digory's house in London at the start of the book and what it is like at the end. How has the house changed? Consider physical changes, and also symbolic changes with respect to the theme of Life versus Death.

Part 1: Describe Digory's house at the beginning of the novel.

Part 2: Describe how Digory's house changes by the end of the novel.

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