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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lewis want to do for Tarby in Chapter Three?

2. What does Lewis dream of at the end of Chapter One?

3. What does Lewis decide before he goes to bed at the end of Chapter Two?

4. What do the three characters play together in Chapter One?

5. Where is the graveyard located as said in Chapter Five?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

6. What happens with Lewis and Tarby’s friendship in Chapter Four? How does Lewis feel about this change?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The American Gothic’s connection to nature is usually one of fear. What representation of nature is found in the novel? How is magic connected to nature and vice versa? Write three pages with at least four textual examples.

Essay Topic 2

Lewis is a proxy for the reader in the novel as explored in previous lessons. In your essay, look at how both Lewis’ and Uncle Jonathan’s reactions as a proxy or interpretive responses for the reader, especially how Uncle Jonathan’s reactions to Lewis in the second half of the novel built a sense of fear. Write three pages with at least four textual examples.

Essay Topic 3

If the Gothic is an evocation of fear, then what fear is being shown in the novel? Connect this to what form, or forms, of Gothic genres are present in this fear. Write three pages with at least four textual examples.

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