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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. Where do Mrs. Zimmerman, Uncle Jonathan, and Lewis drive in Chapter Six?
2. What does Izard say in Chapter Eight about his wife in his notes?
3. What does Uncle Jonathan do after he gets out of the car in Chapter Six?
4. What had Lewis' mother scared him with as a kid, as said in Chapter Seven?
5. Why does the object in Chapter Ten not answer Uncle Jonathan and Mrs. Zimmerman's question regarding where the magic clock is?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Lewis do after he sees his Aunt Mattie in Chapter Eight? What else does he see?
2. What does Lewis see in the Hanchett house in Chapter Nine? What happens between him and Mrs. Izard?
3. What does Lewis go to do in Chapter Nine? What does he learn there?
4. Who moves in across the street from Barnavelt’s Folly in Chapter Seven? How is this person known in town?
5. 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?
6. Why do Uncle Jonathan and Mrs. Zimmerman say Isaac Izard needed a clock in Chapter Eight? What else went wrong with Izard’s plan?
7. What do Uncle Jonathan, Mrs. Zimmerman, and Lewis find when they return home in Chapter Six? What do they find inside?
8. What happens in December that worries Uncle Jonathan as said in Chapter Seven?
9. Why does the car in Chapter Six stop following them? What rule of magic does Uncle Jonathan say this relates to?
10. Who appears in the basement in Chapter Nine? What are they carrying?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
If the Gothic is an evocation of fear, then what fear is being shown in the novel? Connect this to what form, or forms, of Gothic genres are present in this fear. Write three pages with at least four textual examples.
Essay Topic 3
Lewis evolves from the beginning to the end of the novel. Characterize his evolution using examples from the novel. Then answer the question: What does Lewis’ character change show as the message of the novel? Write three pages with at least four textual examples.
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