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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 is Bon-Sour-One-Frank as said in Chapter Ten?

2. What does Lewis see at the end of Chapter Seven at the Hanchett's former house?

3. How is Hammerhandle known in New Zebedee as said in Chapter Seven?

4. What does Lewis think he sees at the end of Chapter Seven?

5. What do Mrs. Zimmerman and Uncle Jonathan notice about Lewis in Chapter Six?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who appears in the basement in Chapter Nine? What are they carrying?

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

4. Where does the eight ball say the magic clock is in Chapter Ten? What do they find when they go there?

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

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

7. Why do Uncle Jonathan and Mrs. Zimmerman say Isaac Izard needed a clock in Chapter Eight? What else went wrong with Izard’s plan?

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

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

10. In Chapter Seven, why does Lewis not tell Uncle Jonathan what he has done? What does he think of that stops him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

In the beginning of the novel, Uncle Jonathan says that magic works by using “solid everyday objects” (41). What does the novel show as the connection between the ordinary, or the everyday, and the magical, or the extraordinary? Write four pages with at least four textual examples.

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