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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 happens to Mrs. Izard in Chapter Ten?

2. What do Uncle John, Mrs. Zimmerman, and Lewis see in Chapter Six when they return home from a drive?

3. Why does Uncle Jonathan stop the car in Chapter Six?

4. What does Uncle Jonathan do when Lewis asks him what his words regarding Hammerhandle meant later in Chapter Seven?

5. Where do they stop in Chapter Six on the way back to New Zebedee?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Lewis do after he talks to Tarby in Chapter Nine? What does he decide?

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

4. What do Uncle Jonathan, Mrs. Zimmerman, and Lewis find when they return home in Chapter Six? What do they find inside?

5. How do Uncle Jonathan, Mrs. Zimmerman, and Lewis find where the magical clock is in Chapter Ten?

6. What does Lewis find in an organ in Chapter Eight? What does this object say?

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

8. What does Uncle Jonathan do when the car starts to follow them in Chapter Six? What part of the car reminds Lewis of something, and what does it remind him of?

9. What does Lewis see at night in Chapter Eight? What do they say?

10. Who moves in across the street from Barnavelt’s Folly in Chapter Seven? How is this person known in town?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

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.

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