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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 do Mrs. Zimmerman and Uncle Jonathan do to cheer up Lewis in Chapter Six?

2. What does Chapter Eight say is Lewis' future profession?

3. Who stops Lewis, Uncle Jonathan, and Mrs. Zimmerman in Chapter Ten from reaching the magic clock?

4. What does the car chase in Chapter Six remind Lewis of?

5. What does Lewis touch on the mantlepiece in the Hanchett's house in Chapter Nine?

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 see at night in Chapter Eight? What do they say?

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

4. What does Lewis do when he realizes Mrs. Izard is behind them in Chapter Ten? What does he do?

5. What does Lewis see at night in Chapter Seven? What does he think he sees?

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

7. What does the article in the New Zebedee Chronicle in Chapter Six say? What does this make Lewis realize?

8. How does Tarby react when Lewis tries to talk to him in Chapter Nine? What does Lewis do?

9. What does Lewis ask Uncle Jonathan about the Hanchett House in Chapter Eight? How does Uncle Jonathan respond?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Fear in horror is usually connected to real fears outside of literature. So modernism and factory working brings the horror of zombies, vampires represents fears of old diseases in old times or selfish people in modern times, and witches, succubi, and other female horror characters represent a fear of women. Research the events of the 1980’s, when the book was written, and write what fears in the current events are represented in the novel. To focus your research, consider specifically the Cold War and the fear of a nuclear threat. Write four 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

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.

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