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

2. What do Izard's notes say as revealed in Chapter Eight?
(a) He is making a clock to crack open the Earth.
(b) He is making a clock to bring heaven to earth.
(c) He is making a clock to keep time for cooking his chicken.
(d) He is making a clock to bring Doomsday.

3. How does Uncle Jonathan have to wear the Ace of Nitwits in Chapter Ten?
(a) On his back,
(b) In his armpit.
(c) In his pocket.
(d) Stuck to his head with a piece of bubblegum.

4. What does Lewis see behind them as they drive in Chapter Six?
(a) A truck.
(b) A hot air balloon.
(c) A tow truck.
(d) "Two cold circles of light" (96).

5. What happens in December in Chapter Seven?
(a) The Hatchets move away.
(b) The Hanchetts, the next door neighbors, move out.
(c) The Hanchetts, the new next door neighbors, move in.
(d) A new orphan comes to Barnavelt's Folly.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Lewis realize in Chapter Six?

3. What does Lewis see at the end of Chapter Seven at the Hanchett's former house?

4. What had Lewis' mother scared him with as a kid, as said in Chapter Seven?

5. What does Uncle Jonathan say happened to the house in Chapter Six?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the article in the New Zebedee Chronicle in Chapter Six say? What does this make Lewis realize?

2. How do Uncle Jonathan, Mrs. Zimmerman, and Lewis find where the magical clock is in Chapter Ten?

3. In Chapter Seven, Hammerhandle move across the street from Barnvault’s Folly. He is known for his mean temper and for being rumored to be able to tell the future. His name is from the handles he makes for Hammers and other instruments.

4. What do Uncle Jonathan, Mrs. Zimmerman, and Lewis find when they return home in Chapter Six? What do they find inside?

5. What does Lewis do after he sees his Aunt Mattie in Chapter Eight? What else does he see?

6. What does Lewis go to do in Chapter Nine? What does he learn there?

7. In Chapter Ten, how do Uncle Jonathan, Mrs. Zimmerman, and Lewis say the Izard’s magic is? How do they say theirs is?

8. How does Tarby react when Lewis tries to talk to him in Chapter Nine? What does Lewis do?

9. Why do Uncle Jonathan and Mrs. Zimmerman say Isaac Izard needed a clock in Chapter Eight? What else went wrong with Izard’s plan?

10. What does Lewis see at night in Chapter Eight? What do they say?

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