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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 has Uncle Jonathan created a collection of so many clocks as said in Chapter Two?
2. What does Lewis ask Uncle Jonathan to do in Chapter Three?
3. What does Lewis find out about Uncle Jonathan’s night walks in Chapter Two?
4. Why is Lewis going in Chapter One to live with Uncle Jonathan?
5. What does Lewis like about the town of new Zebedee in Chapter Two?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What does Lewis find Mrs. Zimmerman doing in Chapter One when he first sees her? Why does he feel embarrassed at this?
3. 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?
4. What is Lewis’ new challenge in Chapter Three? Why is he bullied?
5. What is the first illusion scene that Uncle Jonathan pulls up in Chapter Four? What happens in it?
6. What does Lewis do when he gets home in Chapter Five? What does he dream about that night?
7. What does Uncle Jonathan do in Chapter Three to make the moon disappear?
8. What does Lewis notice that is weird in the mansion in Chapter Two?
9. As Lewis waits to resurrect the dead in Chapter Five, what does he wish? What happens because of his thinking?
10. What does Tarby say about Uncle Jonathan’s magic in Chapter Four? What does Lewis say to change Tarby’s mind?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
While the novel is a mystery about the clock in the walls, as it says in the title, the main events of the novel are written on the book cover. How does this change what it means to read a mystery? Why is it changed in this way? Write three pages with at least four textual examples.
Essay Topic 2
The repetition of motifs and symbols has deep roots in the Gothic tradition. What motifs and symbols are in the novel? And what genres of the Gothic are these connected to? Write three pages with at least four textual examples.
Essay Topic 3
When Lewis first learns of magic, he tries to use logic to think it through, but then decides that logic does not apply (42). Explore the novel’s connection between the magical and the logical. How are they connected? How are they separate? How does magic vary in its connection to logic? Write three pages with at least four textual examples.
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