LWW 10-17

LWW 10-17

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Multiple Choice

What gift did Father Christmas give Susan?

• A sword and shield

• A golden crown and a fur coat

• A bow and arrows and a horn

• A healing potion and a dagger

Father Christmas

• The arrival of Father Christmas indicates that the White Witch’s spell (always winter and never Christmas) is breaking.

• Some (including Tolkien) feel that including Father Christmas was a bad idea because it mixed mythologies; furthermore, why would the celebration of Christ’s birth appear in Narnia?

• What do you think?

Multiple Choice

How did the Witch and the Dwarf avoid being captured when Edmund was rescued?

• She turned the captors into stone.

• They were disguised as a boulder and a tree stump.

• They got away on her sledge.

• They hid in a small cave.

The Witch's Disguise

• “it was part of her magic that she could make things look like what they aren’t” (152).

• Some readers feel frustrated that we never see her use this power elsewhere and that it’s simply too convenient.

Multiple Choice

"...though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know...when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was ______ in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards."

• accused

• killed

• captured

• hidden

Multiple Choice

What did Aslan do to the stone statues in the White Witch’s courtyard?

• He touched them with his paw

• He gave them gifts

• He untied them

• He breathed on them

Aslan’s breath has special powers throughout Narnia; some think it may be a representation of the Holy Spirit.

Multiple Choice

What important role did Edmund play in the battle?

• He killed the White Witch's wolf.

• He called for help with the ivory horn.

• He smashed the White Witch's wand.

• He captured the White Witch.

He had witnessed the power of her wand previously when she turned the animals celebrating Christmas into stone, so he knew it was important to destroy her wand before trying to kill her so she would stop turning their army into stone.