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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. The children can see the top of the flat hill where they crossed the night before. It is clearly the ruins of a city of what?
(a) Gold.
(b) Silver.
(c) Ancient giants.
(d) Ancient elves.

2. Jill is very upset about this, especially when Eustace points out they must have been walking in the ________ when Jill fell in the trench.
(a) U.
(b) O.
(c) M.
(d) E.

3. Eustace must talk to whom when they arrive at Narnia?
(a) Someone he knows.
(b) A wizard.
(c) A witch.
(d) A king.

4. What is Jill's last name?
(a) Pill.
(b) Powell.
(c) Pole.
(d) Pitts.

5. The irritability causes Jill to do what?
(a) Stop repeating the signs.
(b) Faint from exhaustion.
(c) Stop walking.
(d) Run faster in hopes of getting to their destination sooner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who went on a strange adventure with their cousins?

2. The weather becomes what?

3. The children fall asleep and wake up in the morning to go looking for who?

4. The children want to go to Harfang, but they change their direction when they see what in the distance?

5. The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis is one of the wonderful novels included in what series?

Short Essay Questions

1. In chapter 5, the children are taken on a long flight with the owls and are put inside a hut where they instantly fall to sleep. Do you think that it was right for the children to trust the owls and, if so, do you think the owls betrayed that trust by leaving the children alone in the strange hut?

2. Describe how the mood of the novel changes, as chapter six goes on.

3. Why do the owls have to secretly meet to try to save the prince?

4. How does Jill learn the lion's identity?

5. Describe the initial meeting between the children and the stranger at the hut.

6. What are Jill's four tasks that are set out by Aslan?

7. What strange advice does the lady with the knight give the travelers?

8. Explain how and why the lights of the House of Harfang distract the children.

9. What do you think is the symbolism behind Puddleglum's name?

10. Why didn't Eustace recognize his friend, King Caspian?

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