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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 is the passage about that Lewis reads at night in Chapter One?
(a) About ghosts at night.
(b) About Rizzio being killed by Scots in front of Mary, Queen of Scots.
(c) About a young orphan boy making his way in the world.
(d) About a haunted watchtower.

2. 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 nearby stream.
(d) Water from the mansion’s gutters.

3. Where is the graveyard located as said in Chapter Five?
(a) Inside the town.
(b) In another town.
(c) In Uncle Jonathan's backyard.
(d) A half mile outside of New Zebedee.

4. What is Lewis’s name as said in Chapter One?
(a) Mrs. Zimmerman.
(b) Lewis Barnavelt.
(c) Lewis Barn-vault.
(d) Uncle Jonathan.

5. What does Lewis find strange in Chapter Two about a coatrack?
(a) It has disappeared.
(b) It has turned into a stained glass castle.
(c) It has turned orange.
(d) A picture of a Mayan castle has appeared where a mirror used to be.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Lewis realize at the beginning of Chapter Five?

3. What happens after the moon goes out in Chapter Three?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is strange to Lewis about playing poker in Chapter One?

2. What is Uncle Jonathan doing when he walks at night as said in Chapter Two? Why is he doing this?

3. What happens when the moon disappears in Chapter Three? What does Lewis realize he can hear?

4. What does Lewis do to resurrect the dead in Chapter Five? What does he have to do to complete the spell and how does he do this?

5. 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?

6. What does Tarby say about Uncle Jonathan’s magic in Chapter Four? What does Lewis say to change Tarby’s mind?

7. What does Lewis notice that is weird in the mansion in Chapter Two?

8. How do Lewis and Tarby become friends in Chapter Three? What does Lewis want to do for Tarby?

9. What is the first illusion scene that Uncle Jonathan pulls up in Chapter Four? What happens in it?

10. What does Lewis do for the three weeks he has before school starts in Chapter Two? Why does he like doing this?

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