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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mallory say she heard about their Aunt Lucinda?
(a) She is still waiting for her husband to return.
(b) She is willing the house to them.
(c) She was starving herself to death.
(d) She is not really insane.

2. What used to steal Dianna Beckley's Barbie dolls?
(a) Her ferrets.
(b) Her rats.
(c) Her cat.
(d) Her mice.

3. What was sitting on top of the roof of the new home besides chimneys.
(a) An old iron fence.
(b) A weather vane shaped like a dolphin.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A huge tree branch.

4. What is the name of Simon's pets his mother did not want?
(a) Jeffrey and Lemondrop.
(b) Jeckle and Hyde.
(c) Blacknose and Pinkear.
(d) Dewey and Lewie.

5. What tended to drown out the noises of Simon's animals in the children's previous house?
(a) The whine of the refrigerator.
(b) Cars and sirens.
(c) The place was sound proof.
(d) Their father's snoring.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jared think he probably heard?

2. What was the only piece of furniture in the dining room?

3. What did Jared not want to admit to his siblings about the sound he heard?

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

5. Besides an Olympic fencer, what does Jared think his sister Mallory might do when she grows up?

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