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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Afterwords.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jared's mother say to him when they are unloading the car?
(a) He'll make new friends.
(b) He has to help his siblings.
(c) It is a chance for them to start over.
(d) The house just needs a little paint.

2. Why does Mrs. Grace come downstairs?
(a) She forgot her purse.
(b) She saw the light on.
(c) Jared made too much noise.
(d) She was thirsty.

3. What does Mallory think about what is on the floor?
(a) She says they are not tracks.
(b) That a mouse made the tracks.
(c) That the dead rat made the tracks before it died.
(d) That Jared made the tracks.

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

5. What is Simon most anxious to know?
(a) Why the boggart is mad.
(b) Why the boggart killed his tadpoles.
(c) Where his pet mice are.
(d) What the boggart eats.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mallory stack on top of a steamer trunk?

2. What did Mallory give Jared to use for light?

3. About what is Simon talking at the table?

4. What has strange words from newspaper clippings?

5. What does the book describe?

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