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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 is most striking about the last queen, apart from her beauty?

2. What expressions are seen on the faces at the beginning of the row of images?

3. Where does Aunt Letty think that Jadis comes from?

4. Which of the following did not happen to the guinea pigs that Uncle Andrew used for his experiments?

5. Where was Mrs Lefay shut up?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What makes the children lose their fear of Uncle Andrew?

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

5. What possibilities do the children suggest to explain the mysterious yell heard one night by Digory?

6. From the expressions on the faces of the images, what can be deduced about the history of the place they have found themselves in?

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

8. Why did Jadis speak the Deplorable Word?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

The Cabby is chosen to be the first King of Narnia. What aspects of his character will make him a good king? In your answer, refer to some examples other than the scene in Chapter 11 where Aslan questions the Cabby.

Essay Topic 3

We are only told about two of the other worlds that can be reached using the magic rings and the pools in the Wood Between the Worlds. Create a new world of your own and describe it in detail. How is it different to the real world and how is it the same?

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