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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. What does Tarby do instead of playing baseball with Lewis in Chapter Four?
(a) Play football.
(b) Run track.
(c) Kick pine cones.
(d) Play soccer.

2. What happens after the moon goes out in Chapter Three?
(a) The stars go out.
(b) The ghost appears.
(c) The yard lights up with strange sights and sounds.
(d) Isaac Izard appears.

3. How did Tarby break his arm as said in Chapter Three?
(a) He was hanging off of a tree by his knees and fell.
(b) He jumped off of a cliff.
(c) He was cursed by a witch.
(d) He got in a fight with another kid.

4. What does Tarby teach Lewis to do in Chapter Three?
(a) Hit a baseball.
(b) Talk sarcastically.
(c) Run fast.
(d) Read books.

5. What does Lewis realize at the beginning of Chapter Five?
(a) He does not even like Tarby.
(b) He is not going through with the plan.
(c) He wants to live somewhere else.
(d) He is late to see Tarby.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the town that Lewis is going to live in, as said in Chapter One?

2. What does Uncle Jonathan have on his table in Chapter One?

3. What does Uncle Lewis do when he catches Lewis following him at night in Chapter Two?

4. What is the passage about that Lewis reads at night in Chapter One?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lewis find Mrs. Zimmerman doing in Chapter One when he first sees her? Why does he feel embarrassed at this?

2. What is Lewis’ impression of Uncle Jonathan at the end of the night in Chapter One?

3. What does Lewis do when he gets home in Chapter Five? What does he dream about that night?

4. How does Uncle Jonathan explain to Lewis that magic works in Chapter Two? How is this different than Lewis’ previous idea?

5. As Lewis waits to resurrect the dead in Chapter Five, what does he wish? What happens because of his thinking?

6. What happens when Lewis completes the spell in Chapter Five? What do he and Tarby do?

7. Where is the cemetery in relation in New Zebedee as described in Chapter Five? How does Lewis get there?

8. What does Lewis say he will do in Chapter Four in an attempt to keep Tarby’s interest? What does he plan with Tarby and how does he carry out this plan?

9. Why does Uncle Jonathan have so many clocks as he tells Lewis in Chapter Two? How does this relate to the previous owners of the mansion?

10. What does Uncle Jonathan do in Chapter Three to make the moon disappear?

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