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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 after he gets out of the car in Chapter Six?

2. Who does Uncle Jonathan say in Chapter Eight is renting the old Hanchett house?

3. What from the organ does Lewis crush against his face in Chapter Eight?

4. What occurs to Lewis in Chapter Nine after he talks to Tarby?

5. What does Lewis do in Chapter Eight when the person he finds at the door at night speaks to him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Lewis feel sick in the beginning of Chapter Seven? What does he realize he has done?

4. What does Lewis do after he sees his Aunt Mattie in Chapter Eight? What else does he see?

5. What does Lewis see in the Hanchett house in Chapter Nine? What happens between him and Mrs. Izard?

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

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

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 do Uncle Jonathan and Mrs. Zimmerman do in Chapter Six to cheer Lewis up? What happens when they are out?

10. In Chapter Ten, how do Uncle Jonathan, Mrs. Zimmerman, and Lewis say the Izard’s magic is? How do they say theirs is?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Verisimilitude is a literary term that means creating a believable world in a novel that feels as if it is its own world. How does the novel craft verisimilitude in the town of New Zebedee and Lewis’ experiences? How does it apply that verisimilitude to accepting extraordinary events such as magic? Write three pages with at least four textual examples.

Essay Topic 2

How is suspense and fear built in the novel? Consider the structure of the events of the novel in pages, chapters, and as a whole as well as the language used in each of these events. Write three pages with at least four textual examples.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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