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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. Who is in the picture that Lewis sees on the Hanchett's wall in Chapter Nine?

2. What does Uncle Jonathan say the omega sign means in Chapter Six?

3. What does Uncle Jonathan do when Lewis asks him what his words regarding Hammerhandle meant later in Chapter Seven?

4. How does Uncle Jonathan say their magic is in Chapter Ten?

5. What does Uncle Jonathan say was on the front of the mausoleum 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. What do Uncle Jonathan, Mrs. Zimmerman, and Lewis find when they return home in Chapter Six? What do they find inside?

3. How do Uncle Jonathan, Mrs. Zimmerman, and Lewis find where the magical clock is in Chapter Ten?

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

5. What happens in December that worries Uncle Jonathan as said in Chapter Seven?

6. What does Lewis do to confront the problem in Chapter Nine? What where does he go?

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

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

9. How do they celebrate Christmas at the Barnavelt’s house in Chapter Eight? How does Lewis feel?

10. 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.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

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.

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