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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Mallory ask Jared about her hair?
(a) If Jared thinks Simon did it.
(b) If Jared thinks a faerie did it.
(c) If Jared thinks Mallory did it herself as a joke.
(d) If Jared did it.

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

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

5. What does Simon believe about Jared?
(a) Simon has not opinion yet about Jared's actions.
(b) That he is not guilty.
(c) That he is guilty but has a good reason.
(d) That he is the worse brother one could have.

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

7. What does Jared's mom ask him to find?
(a) A way to seal the basement window.
(b) A constructive way to deal with his anger.
(c) A way to seal the attic hole.
(d) A way to join the little league team in that town.

8. What do Brownies become when they get mad?
(a) Boggarts.
(b) Invisible.
(c) All puffed up.
(d) Shapparts.

9. What does Jared think he is dealing with as far as what attacked Mallory?
(a) A sylvan.
(b) An elf.
(c) A Boggart.
(d) A Shappart.

10. What is the picture in Jared's book that looks like an old man with a heavy coat and scarf?
(a) A human invader.
(b) An elf.
(c) A sylvan in disguise when its left its tree.
(d) A boggart.

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

12. What does Jared have to do before he can finish his tracking efforts?
(a) Go to bed.
(b) Clean up the flour.
(c) Take out the garbage.
(d) Take a bath.

13. How is Jared's mother as she wakes him in the morning?
(a) Confused.
(b) Cheerful.
(c) Upset.
(d) Angry.

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

15. Who does Helen Grace suspect is involved in the Mallory episode?
(a) The Brownies.
(b) Simon.
(c) Jared.
(d) Her uncle.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what is Simon talking at the table?

2. What is Simon losing?

3. Who turns on the light in the kitchen while Jared is waiting?

4. What does the book describe?

5. What does Jared think may be in a trunk he finds?

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