Vocabulary activity for Chapters 15 - 17 of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis!

Here are some exerts from the story. Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary word. When you have answered all of the questions, click the "Check Answer" button. A box will pop-up with your score. Do not close until your score is printed or reviewed by your teacher.

1. Instead of all that deadly white the courtyard was now a blaze of colors; . . . the birch-girls in silver, and the beech-girls in fresh, _____ green, and the larch-girls in green so bright that it was almost yellow.

   
   
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   1.   ?    prodigious
   2.   ?    alliance
   3.   ?    transparent

2. "Don't forget the _____-- Give us a hand with this door!-- Here's another little winding stair."

   
   
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   1.   ?    glades
   2.   ?    scepters
   3.   ?    dungeons

3. Then he opened a great red mouth, warm and living, and gave a _____ yawn.

   
   
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   1.   ?    prodigious
   2.   ?    alliance
   3.   ?    skirling

4. And they entered into friendship and _____ with countries beyond the sea and paid them visits of state and received visits of state from them.

   
   
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   1.   ?    glade
   2.   ?    museum
   3.   ?    alliance

5. The girls cleared away the remains of the _____ ropes.

   
   
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   1.   ?    transparent
   2.   ?    gnawed
   3.   ?    skirling

6. "Oh, you're real, you're real! Oh, Aslan!" cried Lucy, and both girls _____ themselves upon him and covered him with kisses.

   
   
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   1.   ?    flung
   2.   ?    ransacked
   3.   ?    gnawed

7. For with wild cries and a noise of _____ pipes and shrill horns blowing, the whole of that vile rabble came sweeping off the hilltop and down the slope right past their hiding-place.

   
   
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   1.   ?    gnawing
   2.   ?    flinging
   3.   ?    skirling

8. So the children sat on their thrones and _____ were put into their hands and they gave rewards and honors to all their friends.

   
   
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   1.   ?    museums
   2.   ?    dungeons
   3.   ?    scepters

9. "What an extraordinary place!" cried Lucy. "All those stone animals--and people too! It's--it's like a _____."

   
   
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   1.   ?    dungeon
   2.   ?    scepter
   3.   ?    museum

10. You are riding not on a road nor in a park nor even on the downs, but right across Narnia, in spring, down solemn avenues of beech and across sunny _____ of oak.

    
    
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    1.   ?    dungeons
    2.   ?    alliances
    3.   ?    glades

11. But at last the _____ of the Witch's fortress was ended.

    
    
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    1.   ?    alliance
    2.   ?    ransacking
    3.   ?    gnawing