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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 Uncle Jonathan do in Chapter One when the clocks begin to chime midnight?
2. What does Lewis look at the Spanish Armada in Chapter Four through?
3. What does Lewis dream of at the end of Chapter Five?
4. What does Lewis see in Chapter Five as he tries to fall asleep?
5. What does Lewis do in the three weeks before he returns to school in Chapter Two?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Uncle Jonathan doing when he walks at night as said in Chapter Two? Why is he doing this?
2. As Lewis waits to resurrect the dead in Chapter Five, what does he wish? What happens because of his thinking?
3. What does Lewis say he will do in Chapter Four in an attempt to keep Tarby’s interest? What does he plan with Tarby and how does he carry out this plan?
4. How do Lewis and Tarby become friends in Chapter Three? What does Lewis want to do for Tarby?
5. What is the first illusion scene that Uncle Jonathan pulls up in Chapter Four? What happens in it?
6. 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?
7. How does Tarby act after the magic in Chapter Three? Why does this make Lewis afraid?
8. What does Lewis notice that is weird in the mansion in Chapter Two?
9. What happens when Uncle Jonathan hears a clock when he picks Jonathan up in Chapter One? What does Lewis observe about Jonathan when he is walking with him to the mansion?
10. How does Uncle Jonathan explain to Lewis that magic works in Chapter Two? How is this different than Lewis’ previous idea?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Think about the trio of Lewis, Uncle Jonathan, and Mrs. Zimmerman. Who are their characters individually and how do they work together as a complete whole in the novel? As Lewis has recently lost his family, how do the residents of Barnavelt’s Folly create a new family dynamic? Write three pages with four textual examples.
Essay Topic 2
Light and dark dichotomies are typically used in the Gothic to illustrate good versus evil. How does the novel use this typical color palette to heightened literary effect? Find two examples from the text to support your response. Then look at how the novel uses other colors. What other colors and forms of light does the novel incorporate? How does it create a new palette of the Gothic and why does it do this? Make sure to consider that Barnavelt's Folly has had two recent owners. Use at least four examples in four pages for your overall answer.
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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