Characters
The four children at the start of the story are _____.
Who are Peter, Susan, Edmund, Lucy?
The children were sent away from London for this reason.
What is the air-raids during the war?
The word “housekeeper” refers to this in the text.
What is a housekeeper is the person who manages household tasks and cares for the house (Mrs Macready in the story)?
The children did this the morning after they arrived when it was raining?
What is explored the house (Peter decided to explore; others talked and planned)?
Lucy leaves the wardrobe door open when she goes in because of this.
What is she thinks it is foolish to shut oneself into a wardrobe and wants to be able to get back easily?
The child first enters the wardrobe and discovers Narnia is
Who is Lucy?
The professor lived in relation to the nearest railway station and post office these distance.
What is ten miles from the nearest railway station and two miles from the nearest post office?
The author calls Lucy the “Daughter of Eve” in Narnia. This phrase means this in simple words.
What is a human girl? (Eve is the first woman in many creation stories).
List, in order, two rooms or things the children find when they explore the house before Lucy goes into the wardrobe
What is a long room full of pictures and a suit of armour? What is a room hung with green and a harp, and rooms lined with books
What is the spare room with a wardrobe?
You infer this about the Professor from the description in Chapter One.
What is he is odd-looking but kind?
or
What is he lives alone in a very large house and is generous enough to take in evacuee children?
or
What is he is cultured and eccentric?
This character is described as having shaggy white hair and no wife.
Who is the professor?
Lucy felt this under her feet when she first stepped into Narnia
What is soft, powdery, cold snow under her feet?
Find and explain the meaning of the word “melancholy” as used to describe Mr Tumnus’s voice.
What is sad or gloomy? Mr Tumnus’s voice sounded sad.
Describe what happens from the moment Lucy steps into the wardrobe until she reaches the lamppost (3–4 short steps).
What is Lucy opens the wardrobe, steps among coats, walks further in expecting wood but finds snow, walks through the wood, hears crunching, sees a light, and reaches a lamppost?
The White Witch might want Mr Tumnus to hand over any human children he finds because of this. Use clues from the text
What is the Witch uses spies and fear to control Narnia?
What is humans may be rare and valuable to her power?
What is she wants to prevent prophecy about humans reclaiming Narnia (text suggests she punishes those who don’t obey)?
Mr. Tumnus is this animal.
Give two details about him (species and one item he carries).
What is a Faun;
What is he carries an umbrella and brown-paper parcels (and plays a flute)?
Name one strange thing Lucy notices in the wood that surprised her.
What is a lamp-post in the middle of a snowy wood?
Or
What is always winter and there is snow falling?
The Faun says “Always winter and never Christmas.” This phrase helps you understand this about Narnia’s condition. (Use evidence from the text.)
What is Narnia is under the Witch’s spell or control?
or
What is it is stuck in winter with no celebrations? (text: “Always winter and never Christmas”).
Mr Tumnus does this when Lucy says she must go home. (Name two actions.)
What is he sobs, explains he has been working for the White Witch and intended to hand Lucy over, then he decides to help Lucy get home and leads her back quietly to the lamp-post?
Lucy’s forgiveness of Mr Tumnus tells you this about her character. Give one sentence explaining
What is Lucy is forgiving, kind, and trusting? She forgives Mr Tumnus even after learning his plan because she values his remorse and goodness
This child wanted to laugh at the Professor when they first met him.
Who is Edmund?
Explain how Lucy gets back from Narnia to the spare room at the Professor’s house.
What is she walks back to the lamp-post with Mr. Tumnus, sees the patch of daylight that shows the wardrobe door, steps through coats and wooden floor, and jumps out into the spare room, closing the wardrobe behind her?
The text uses the phrase “pretending he was blowing his nose to hide it.” This tell you this about Edmund’s feelings and behavior.
What is Edmund is embarrassed and trying to hide that he is laughing?
or
What is he is being rude and pretending to be something he is not? (hiding his true reaction).
Summarize Mr Tumnus’s plan and why he is upset about it. Then say how he changes his mind.
What is he had orders from the White Witch to capture any human children and hand them over. He is upset because he feels guilty and fears punishment (having tail and horns removed or being turned to stone). He changes his mind because he has learned Lucy is kind and he cannot betray her; he decides to escort her back to safety instead?
Identify one theme or lesson that could come from these chapters and explain it with one example from the text.
What is courage and kindness overcome fear or wrongdoin?
Example: Lucy forgives Mr Tumnus and he rescues her instead of following the Witch’s orders.