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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. About what does Jared think concerning mystical creatures?
(a) That they are not real.
(b) That they may be all around them.
(c) He is busy putting together a model airplane and not thinking of anything else.
(d) That they are not friendly.

3. What is one reason might the creature be bothering Mallory?
(a) Because the children do not believe in it.
(b) Because Jared found the book.
(c) Because Jared disturbed the tree in the yard.
(d) Because the Grace children have invaded its space.

4. What enrages Helen about what Simon says?
(a) That Simon thinks Jared has a good reason for what he did.
(b) That he is talking nonsense.
(c) That Simon is siding with Mallory as usual.
(d) That he sides with his brother even though his brother has killed Simon's pets.

5. What does Jared suggest about a poem?
(a) It was written by their great-uncle.
(b) It is a red herring.
(c) It was planted intentionally.
(d) It might provide a clue as to what happened to Mallory.

6. Where does Simon go after leaving Mallory's bedroom?
(a) Outside to look for crickets.
(b) To the his bedroom to look for the poem.
(c) Outside to go riding.
(d) To the basement to find a knife.

7. Who does Jared remember is in a psych hospital?
(a) His great-aunt Lucinda.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His great-grandfather.
(d) His uncle.

8. What does Jared think will help the creature to be nicer?
(a) Leaving it the Field Guide.
(b) Leaving it something everyday.
(c) Giving it a new house.
(d) The humans moving.

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

10. What intensifies Helen Grace's concerns about Jared's morning activities?
(a) That he did not do his home study lesson plans before going out.
(b) Jared has epilepsy and could have an attack while climbing.
(c) Jared is not as atheletic as Mallory or Simon and is too clumsy to climb high trees.
(d) Her thoughts about his possible culpability concerning Mallory's hair and bruises.

11. What happens when Jared distracts Simon?
(a) Something flies out of Simon's hair.
(b) Mallory gets another point.
(c) Simon falls and twists his ankle.
(d) Simon falls and breaks his wrist.

12. What is Simon losing?
(a) His nighttime privileges.
(b) His voice.
(c) His baby fat.
(d) The fencing match.

13. What does Jared see on the floor?
(a) Tracks made by the boggart.
(b) A dead rat.
(c) Tracks made by the elf.
(d) A message written in the flour.

14. What is the significance of the word Spiderwick?
(a) It is the name of the old family estate about 70 miles from there.
(b) It is the name of a cave where Helen Grace and her brother Jared used to play.
(c) Helen Grace does not know the word.
(d) It is great-aunt Lucinda's maiden name.

15. Where does Jared find a book called Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide?
(a) In the abandoned building in town.
(b) In a trunk in the attic.
(c) In an unused room in the library in town.
(d) In the large hole in the tree he climbs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is there a large hole where Jared goes?

2. What does Mallory ask Jared about her hair?

3. What does Simon say Jared better do at night?

4. About what is Simon talking at the table?

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

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