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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lewis hear in his room at the end of Chapter Two?
(a) Uncle Jonathan's coughs.
(b) The sound of his father lecturing him about magic.
(c) A clock ticking in the walls.
(d) The voice of Isaac Izard.

2. What stops Uncle Jonathan from talking when he is picking up Lewis in Chapter One?
(a) He does not know where the train station is.
(b) His absentmindedness.
(c) The tolling of the church bell.
(d) He had lost his watch.

3. What does Lewis dream of at the end of Chapter One?
(a) Him and Jonathan playing poker.
(b) Him and Jonathan running down the street with something chasing them.
(c) Him and Jonathan eating cookies.
(d) Being back home with his family.

4. What is Uncle Jonathan doing at night in Chapter Two?
(a) Turning off all of the clocks.
(b) Trying to scare Lewis.
(c) Prowling for burglars.
(d) Writing a novel about haunted houses.

5. What did the previous owner of Barnavelt’s Folly do as said in Chapter Two?
(a) Marry Mrs. Zimmerman.
(b) Hide a magical clock in the walls.
(c) Curse Uncle Jonathan.
(d) Ask the neighbors for help and support.

6. Who greets Lewis when he gets off of the train in Chapter One?
(a) Uncle Jonathan.
(b) Mrs. Zimmerman.
(c) No one.
(d) A ghost.

7. Who does Lewis become friends with in Chapter Three?
(a) Tarby.
(b) Isaac Izard.
(c) Lewis.
(d) Uncle Jonathan.

8. Who is Mrs. Zimmerman from Chapter One?
(a) Lewis' grandmother.
(b) The owner of Barnvault's folly.
(c) Uncle Jonathan's wife.
(d) Uncle Jonathan’s next door neighbor who visits and cooks for him.

9. What does Uncle Jonathan use to create a reflection of the moon in Chapter Three?
(a) Three pails of water from the rain barrel in a birdbath.
(b) Water from the tap put into a teacup.
(c) Water from the mansion’s gutters.
(d) Water from the nearby stream.

10. What does Lewis say he will do to keep Tarby’s interest in Chapter Four?
(a) Raise the dead.
(b) Clean all of Tarby's shoes.
(c) Chase snakes.
(d) Eat a worm.

11. How does Mrs. Zimmerman appear in Chapter Two?
(a) Through a trap door in the study room bookshelf.
(b) Through the fire place.
(c) Through the kitchen sink.
(d) Out of thin air.

12. Who does Lewis see on deck of the Spanish Armada in Chapter Four?
(a) The Queen of England.
(b) C.S. Lewis.
(c) Harry Potter.
(d) The Duke of Medina-Sedona.

13. What did Uncle Jonathan get his university degree in as he tells Lewis in Chapter Two?
(a) Magical spells.
(b) Animating dead bodies.
(c) Animal husbandry.
(d) Flying.

14. What do Uncle Jonathan and Mrs. Zimmerman think about how Lewis acts in Chapter Four?
(a) That Lewis is going to raise the dead.
(b) That Lewis has found new friends.
(c) That Lewis has been talking to Isaac Izard too much.
(d) That something is up between him and Tarby.

15. What does Lewis decide before he goes to bed at the end of Chapter Two?
(a) That Uncle Jonathan is crazy.
(b) That logic can not solve this problem.
(c) That he is too tired to think.
(d) That he needs a new home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Uncle Jonathan do in Chapter One when the clocks begin to chime midnight?

2. What does Lewis ask Uncle Jonathan to do in Chapter Three?

3. What does Lewis do to get to the graveyard faster in Chapter Five?

4. Who is also in the second illusion in Chapter Four?

5. What does Lewis like about the town of new Zebedee in Chapter Two?

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