Reading Check and Short Answer questions on key points are designed for guided reading assignments, in-class review, formative assessment, quizzes, and more.

CHAPTERS 1-4

Reading Check

1. Why do the siblings plan to explore the house?

2. What comforts Lucy as she climbs into the wardrobe?

3. Who has plunged Narnia into an endless winter?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. Why do the siblings go to stay in the countryside?

2. How do Peter, Edmund, and Susan react when Lucy first tells them about Narnia?

3. What does the White Witch ask of Edmund?

Paired Resource

“Meet C.S. Lewis”

• This resource from the C. S. Lewis Institute provides background to C. S. Lewis’s life, work, and influences.
• The context for Lewis’s spiritual and religious journey connects to the theme of The Significance of Love, Sacrifice, and Redemption.
• What part of C. S. Lewis’s life might have influenced his work? What historical, literary, or religious influences would he have experienced, and what connections do you see between those influences and what we’ve read so far?

CHAPTERS 5-8

Reading Check

1. What do the children borrow from the wardrobe?

2. What does Mr. Beaver show Lucy to prove his friendship?

3. Who is Aslan?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence.