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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. What smell does Digory notice while he is waiting?

2. What color is the sky in the new world?

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

4. What made Uncle Andrew's hair turn gray?

5. What happened to the river in Charn during the battle?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What crucial piece of knowledge does Digory not know about the Witch?

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

9. What does Uncle Andrew do after he leaves his study and why?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Magician's Nephew has, as one of its key themes, the antithesis between life and death/destruction. Describe two or three ways that theme is illustrated in The Magician's Nephew. Which force is shown to predominate?

Essay Topic 2

Victorian London is one of several settings in The Magician's Nephew and is the most familiar. Describe this setting, and compare and contrast it with two of the other settings (listed below).

Part 1: Describe Victorian London as it appears in The Magician's Nephew.

Part 2: Compare and contrast Victorian London with one of the other settings in this book.

Part 3: Compare and contrast Victorian London with another of the settings in this book.

Choose two of the following:

The Wood Between the Worlds

Charn

Narnia

Essay Topic 3

Charn is where Jadis, the personification of the powers of death and destruction comes from. Describe Charn and explain how this setting is also symbolic of death and destruction.

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