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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 Mrs. Corrigan ask Lewis in Chapter Nine?
(a) To be better friends to Tarby.
(b) To take Tarby his lunch.
(c) To not tell Tarby any more ghost stories.
(d) To not come back.

2. What do Uncle Jonathan, Lewis, and Mrs. Zimmerman find in Chapter Ten when they return to the house?
(a) The house is destroyed.
(b) The clock is gone.
(c) The ticking is louder than ever.
(d) The house was robbed.

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

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

5. Where do Mrs. Zimmerman, Uncle Jonathan, and Lewis drive in Chapter Six?
(a) Outside of New Zebedee along country roads.
(b) To the local store.
(c) To the creek.
(d) To the river.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lewis find within an organ in the mansion in Chapter Eight?

2. What question that Lewis asks in Chapter Eight makes Uncle Jonathan angry?

3. What do Izard's notes say as revealed in Chapter Eight?

4. What does Mrs. Izard do in Chapter Nine to Uncle Jonathan's staff?

5. What does Lewis touch on the mantlepiece in the Hanchett's house in Chapter Nine?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lewis do to confront the problem in Chapter Nine? What where does he go?

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

3. What is inside the light fixture in the parlor in Chapter Six that has been put back in place? What does Lewis realize from this?

4. What does Lewis find in an organ in Chapter Eight? What does this object say?

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

6. What happens in December that worries Uncle Jonathan as said in Chapter Seven?

7. What does Lewis do after he talks to Tarby in Chapter Nine? What does he decide?

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

9. What do Uncle Jonathan and Mrs. Zimmerman do in Chapter Six to cheer Lewis up? What happens when they are out?

10. How does Uncle Jonathan say in Chapter Six that Izard’s tomb was marked? What did this symbol mean?

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