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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 do Lewis, Uncle Jonathan, and Mrs. Zimmerman ask in Chapter Ten where the magic clock is?
(a) Lewis' eight ball.
(b) The Christmas tree.
(c) The piano.
(d) The ouija board.

2. What does Lewis find within an organ in the mansion in Chapter Eight?
(a) Isaac Izard's notes.
(b) Uncle Jonathan's notes.
(c) Mrs. Zimmerman's cookbook.
(d) Mrs. Izard's notes.

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

4. What has happened with Lewis and Tarby's friendship in Chapter Seven?
(a) Tarby has stopped being Lewis' friend.
(b) Tarby has grown closer to Lewis.
(c) Tarby has found a girlfriend.
(d) Tarby wants to make new buddies.

5. What does Chapter Eight say is Lewis' future profession?
(a) An astronomer.
(b) A spy.
(c) An astronaut.
(d) An artist.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does someone freeze Uncle Jonathan and Mrs. Zimmerman in Chapter Ten?

2. What does Uncle Jonathan make to hang on the Christmas Tree in Chapter Eight?

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

4. What does Hammerhandle yell at Lewis in Chapter Seven?

5. What does Lewis not want to do in Chapter Seven?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the car in Chapter Six stop following them? What rule of magic does Uncle Jonathan say this relates to?

2. What does Lewis see at night in Chapter Seven? What does he think he sees?

3. What does Lewis see in the Hanchett house in Chapter Nine? What happens between him and Mrs. Izard?

4. 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?

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

6. 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.

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

8. What does Hammerhandle tell Lewis in Chapter Eight? What does Uncle Jonathan say in response to this?

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

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

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