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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. How does Uncle Jonathan have to wear the Ace of Nitwits in Chapter Ten?
2. What, in Chapter Nine, does Lewis like to stand on as he gets dressed?
3. What does Lewis do in Chapter Eight to hear what Uncle Jonathan and Mrs. Zimmerman really think about Isaac Izard?
4. What do Lewis, Uncle Jonathan, and Mrs. Zimmerman ask in Chapter Ten where the magic clock is?
5. What does Uncle Jonathan say the omega sign means in Chapter Six?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Lewis do after he sees his Aunt Mattie in Chapter Eight? What else does he see?
2. Why does Lewis feel sick in the beginning of Chapter Seven? What does he realize he has done?
3. How does Tarby react when Lewis tries to talk to him in Chapter Nine? What does Lewis do?
4. In Chapter Seven, Hammerhandle move across the street from Barnvault’s Folly. He is known for his mean temper and for being rumored to be able to tell the future. His name is from the handles he makes for Hammers and other instruments.
5. How do Uncle Jonathan, Mrs. Zimmerman, and Lewis find where the magical clock is in Chapter Ten?
6. What does Lewis do after he talks to Tarby in Chapter Nine? What does he decide?
7. How does Uncle Jonathan say in Chapter Six that Izard’s tomb was marked? What did this symbol mean?
8. Why does the car in Chapter Six stop following them? What rule of magic does Uncle Jonathan say this relates to?
9. What is inside the light fixture in the parlor in Chapter Six that has been put back in place? What does Lewis realize from this?
10. What do Uncle Jonathan and Mrs. Zimmerman do in Chapter Six to cheer Lewis up? What happens when they are out?
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
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 3
The main event of the rising action in the novel is not introduced until halfway through the book. From there, the rest of the plot events are in the second half of the book. Why is the book structured in this way? What does this structure allow to also be included in the novel? Why are these additions to the plot included? Write three pages with at least four textual examples.
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