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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the only piece of furniture in the dining room?
(a) A china cabinet.
(b) A battered sideboard.
(c) Three chairs.
(d) A long table.

2. What does Simon say to Jared when they are back in their bedroom?
(a) He believes Jared is in big trouble.
(b) He believes Jared about the note.
(c) He thinks Jared is crazy.
(d) He thinks Jared should get a pet.

3. What does Jared show Mallory?
(a) The paper he found upstairs.
(b) The bottle of beads.
(c) The Field Guide.
(d) The picture from the wall.

4. What does Mrs. Grace think Jared and Mallory are doing in the kitchen?
(a) Playing.
(b) Arguing.
(c) Talking about Simon.
(d) Trying to fool her.

5. What startled Jared awake the first night?
(a) The window blowing open.
(b) Something walking across his bed.
(c) Simon yelling at him.
(d) The hinges on his bedroom door creaking.

6. What happens to Jared's candle when he rushed across the room?
(a) It falls and catches the rug on fire.
(b) Nothing.
(c) It choked on wax and sputtered.
(d) It becomes brighter.

7. What did Jared think he probably heard?
(a) Simon playing a joke.
(b) The wind across the roof.
(c) A squirrel.
(d) His mother pulling a chair in the living room.

8. What was on the desk that caught the light?
(a) Some glass beads.
(b) A mirror.
(c) A prism.
(d) Old fashion, round glasses.

9. What does the letter in the introduction say happens to the relationship between Holly and Tony?
(a) It becomes deeper.
(b) It is tested.
(c) It becomes more acrimonious.
(d) It changes.

10. What does the book store clerk tell Holly?
(a) There are no more fans wanting signed books.
(b) He has a letter for Holly and Tony.
(c) They have run out of books.
(d) They have fifty more fans who want her signature.

11. In what do Holly and Tony both have an interest?
(a) Making wine.
(b) Writing.
(c) Faeries.
(d) Drawing pictures.

12. What did Jared see when he sat up after he was awoken?
(a) A mouse running across the floor.
(b) Simon standing by the window.
(c) A white owl on the window sill.
(d) A figure dressed in white.

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

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

15. What is the result of the dangerous bedrooms?
(a) Their mother has to sleep downstairs.
(b) Jared and Simon have to share a bedroom.
(c) Mallory has to sleep downstairs.
(d) Jared has a smaller bedroom than Simon or Mallory.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Simon concerned about Mallory punching a hole in the wall?

2. What has made many of the bedrooms dangerous?

3. What does Mallory grab on Jared?

4. Why is Mallory waking Jared?

5. How does Jared get upstairs on the dumbwaiter?

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