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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Jared get upstairs on the dumbwaiter?
(a) By pushing a button.
(b) He pulls up on rungs in the wall like a ladder.
(c) He pulls himself with the cords on the dumbwaiter.
(d) Simon and Mallory pulls on the cords.

2. Besides an Olympic fencer, what does Jared think his sister Mallory might do when she grows up?
(a) Be in jail.
(b) Be president of the United States.
(c) Have five children.
(d) Live in Paris.

3. What is Jared's response to Mallory's threats?
(a) Shame.
(b) Aloofness.
(c) Anger.
(d) Denial.

4. What was in the Mason jars Simon carries into the house?
(a) Lightning bugs.
(b) Mice.
(c) Two king snakes.
(d) Crickets.

5. What kind of dwarves was one book about?
(a) Scottish.
(b) Irish.
(c) English.
(d) American.

Short Answer Questions

1. What shocks Helen Grace about her conversation with Jared?

2. What tended to drown out the noises of Simon's animals in the children's previous house?

3. What does Mallory tell her mother when her mother comes in the kitchen?

4. What is odd about Mallory's hair?

5. What does Jared's mom ask him to find?

(see the answer key)

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