If this is how you've presented the question, Its a bit hard to answer it when one hasn't read these books. It'd be best if you'd put both books into a summary for us to go based off of, at most.
Answer:
Oxymoron
Explanation:
The old man was <u>awfully good</u> at chess.
The old man was <u>wonderfully bad</u> at chess.
I believe this is a dependant clause
The answer is they have more questions in their mind at the end
