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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jared find when he climbs the staircase?
(a) A small room.
(b) A huge bird's nest.
(c) A cask.
(d) A trombone case.

2. About what phrase in the poem does Jared wonder?
(a) Up and up and up again.
(b) Through and through and through again.
(c) Back and back and back again.
(d) Down and down and down again.

3. What does Jared's mother have him do?
(a) Go look at the kitchen.
(b) Clean the woodshed.
(c) Go look at the sycamore tree in the front yard.
(d) Start in immediately on his home study lessons.

4. For what did Mrs. Grace go to the store?
(a) Buckets to catch the leaks.
(b) Shampoo.
(c) Cereal and milk.
(d) Bread and peanut butter.

5. Why is Mallory waking Jared?
(a) She heard the squirrel noises again.
(b) She is hungry.
(c) She wants to tell him their mother is gone.
(d) She has a leak in her bedroom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was stuffed in the space between the boards in the wall?

2. How does Jared get upstairs on the dumbwaiter?

3. Why is there tension among Mallory, Jared and Simon?

4. What has strange words from newspaper clippings?

5. What is Simon losing?

(see the answer key)

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