Print
Word
PDF
|
| Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do Uncle Jonathan, Lewis, and Mrs. Zimmerman do for Halloween in Chapter Four?
2. What does Lewis ask Uncle Jonathan to do in Chapter Three?
3. What has Uncle Jonathan created a collection of so many clocks as said in Chapter Two?
4. What do Uncle Jonathan and Mrs. Zimmerman think about how Lewis acts in Chapter Four?
5. What does Lewis do with the Spanish Armada in Chapter Four?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens with Lewis and Tarby’s friendship in Chapter Four? How does Lewis feel about this change?
2. 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?
3. What happens when Lewis completes the spell in Chapter Five? What do he and Tarby do?
4. What does Lewis do when he gets home in Chapter Five? What does he dream about that night?
5. What does Lewis notice that is weird in the mansion in Chapter Two?
6. As Lewis waits to resurrect the dead in Chapter Five, what does he wish? What happens because of his thinking?
7. 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?
8. What is the second illusion scene that Uncle Jonathan casts in Chapter Four? What happens in it?
9. What is the first illusion scene that Uncle Jonathan pulls up in Chapter Four? What happens in it?
10. 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?
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
Tension and suspense are vital to creating a mystery novel that keeps the reader turning the pages. How do the moments of tension in the novel use gothic themes to increase their fear factor? Write three pages with at least four textual examples.
Essay Topic 3
While John Bellair’s the House with the Clock in Its Walls is in the Gothic tradition, it combines elements of different Gothic genres and also has introductions of new themes. Write a definition of the new form of Gothic Bellair is making in the novel, what traditions he is pulling from or transforming, what he adds, and why he adds this. Write four pages with at least four textual examples.
|
This section contains 1,013 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) |
|
