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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Izard do in Chapter Nine to Uncle Jonathan's staff?
(a) Eat it.
(b) Toss it out the window.
(c) Drain it of its light.
(d) Set it on fire.

2. What do Uncle John, Mrs. Zimmerman, and Lewis see in Chapter Six when they return home from a drive?
(a) They have been vandalized.
(b) The front door is ajar.
(c) The windows of the house are broken.
(d) They have a new neighbor.

3. What wakes up Lewis in Chapter Eight a week before Christmas?
(a) Babies crying.
(b) Mrs. Izard.
(c) The doorbell ringing.
(d) A ghost.

4. What does Uncle Jonathan do when Lewis asks him what his words regarding Hammerhandle meant later in Chapter Seven?
(a) Eat dinner in silence.
(b) Snap at Lewis and go to his study.
(c) Tell Lewis the meaning.
(d) Play chess with Lewis.

5. Who does Lewis find at the door at night in Chapter Eight?
(a) His dead dog Ralph.
(b) Mrs. Izard.
(c) His dead Aunt Mattie.
(d) Uncle Jonathan.

6. What does Lewis do after he hears Uncle Jonathan and Mrs. Zimmerman's discussion in Chapter Eight?
(a) Cry and then go to bed.
(b) Reveal himself to them.
(c) Beg them for forgiveness.
(d) Burst out of the closet.

7. What occurs to Lewis in Chapter Nine after he talks to Tarby?
(a) He needs to cry more.
(b) He needs new friends.
(c) He never liked Tarby really.
(d) Crying will not solve anything.

8. What does Lewis do in Chapter Eight to hear what Uncle Jonathan and Mrs. Zimmerman really think about Isaac Izard?
(a) Confronts them.
(b) Asks their opinions.
(c) Goes into the parlor.
(d) Sneaks into the secret passageways.

9. What, in Chapter Nine, does Lewis like to stand on as he gets dressed?
(a) A handmade hooked rug.
(b) The mirror.
(c) A chair.
(d) The roof.

10. Why does the object in Chapter Ten not answer Uncle Jonathan and Mrs. Zimmerman's question regarding where the magic clock is?
(a) It is Lewis' ball.
(b) It does not like them.
(c) It wants to be left alone.
(d) It has no answers.

11. At the beginning of Chapter Nine, what does Lewis think he needs to do?
(a) Warn Tarby about Mrs. Izard.
(b) Find a new friend.
(c) Become friends with Tarby again.
(d) Move towns.

12. What does Lewis realize in Chapter Six?
(a) He wants to move towns.
(b) He does not like magic.
(c) He resurrected Selenna Izard.
(d) He is going to be late to school.

13. What does Lewis think he sees at the end of Chapter Seven?
(a) A pair of gray spectacles on the figure on the porch.
(b) A ghost.
(c) Mr. Izard.
(d) Hammerhandle.

14. What does Tarby say when Lewis tries to speak to him in Chapter Nine about the graveyard?
(a) He tells Lewis he imagined the whole thing.
(b) He tells Lewis to get a new friend.
(c) He tells Lewis he will break his arms if he tells anyone.
(d) He tells Lewis to leave him alone.

15. Who appears in Chapter Nine to help Lewis?
(a) Uncle Jonathan.
(b) Paul Bunyan.
(c) Mrs. Zimmerman.
(d) Archangel Michael.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Hammerhandle known in New Zebedee as said in Chapter Seven?

2. What does Uncle Jonathan say to Lewis when he sees Izard's papers in Chapter Eight?

3. Where in Chapter Nine does Lewis go with the object he takes from Uncle Jonathan's study?

4. What does Lewis take from Uncle Jonathan's study in Chapter Nine?

5. When had Lewis seen Hammerhandle last, as said in Chapter Seven?

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