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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Simon crying?
(a) His cat is missing.
(b) Mallory beat him again in fencing.
(c) He has bruises on his arm.
(d) He tripped down the stairs and twisted his ankle.

2. What does Jared decide to do for the creature bothering them?
(a) Try to trap it.
(b) Make it a new house.
(c) Try to talk to it.
(d) Try to kill it.

3. What is Helen Grace's biggest concern about Jared's activities that morning?
(a) That he could fall through the floor of the attic.
(b) She is not concerned as she knows Jared can take care of himself.
(c) That he could fall out of the tall sycamore with the large hole in it.
(d) That he could get in trouble for trespassing into the abandoned building.

4. About what is Simon talking at the table?
(a) The possibility of ghosts in the house.
(b) His new tadpoles.
(c) An injured rabbit he finds.
(d) Some baby birds.

5. What is in the freezer?
(a) Nothing; it's been totally emtied.
(b) Tadpoles.
(c) A large bass that had not been there before.
(d) A large chunk of Mallory's hair.

6. What does Jared's mother suspect?
(a) That Jared is acting out because Mallory gets extra privileges.
(b) That Mallory is setting up Jared.
(c) That Jared is resonsible for the mess in the kitchen.
(d) That Jared is acting out because his father left them.

7. What surprises Simon about Jared and the book Jared found?
(a) Jared writing in the book when he has never allowed Simon to do such a thing to any book.
(b) Jared's unwillingness to let anyone else look at the book.
(c) Jared's facination with the book.
(d) Jared's disinterest in the book after his initial excitement.

8. What does Simon say Jared better do at night?
(a) Wear dark clothing.
(b) Paint his face and hands black.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Stay in their bedroom.

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

10. What does Jared hear in the morning?
(a) Absolute silence.
(b) Mallory and Simon yelling.
(c) Mallory screaming.
(d) Mallory making breakfast.

11. What does Simon admire as he and Jared are in their room that night?
(a) His butterfly collection.
(b) His pet mice.
(c) His bone collection.
(d) His arrowhead collection.

12. How is the children's mother acting as she serves the meal?
(a) Animated.
(b) Depressed.
(c) Quiet.
(d) Angry.

13. What does Mallory call the book Jared finds?
(a) She shows not reaction at all.
(b) A baby book.
(c) The key.
(d) A treasure.

14. What does Jared think is possible about the book?
(a) It is not meant to be a serious treatise.
(b) It is one of just a few of its kind.
(c) It is the only copy in existence.
(d) It was written by his great-great grandfather.

15. Who turns on the light in the kitchen while Jared is waiting?
(a) Simon.
(b) His mom.
(c) Mallory.
(d) The brownie.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Jared find when he climbs the staircase?

3. What does Jared's mom recall about Jared's school days?

4. What does the book describe?

5. What happened to the bowl Jared had set out?

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