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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is missing from the house?
(a) Mallory's fencing blade.
(b) Simon's pet mice.
(c) The secret books.
(d) The gold coins in the office.

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

3. What is odd about Mallory's hair?
(a) It is blue.
(b) It is tied in strands to the bedpost.
(c) It is green.
(d) It is extremely short and blue.

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

5. What happened to the bowl Jared had set out?
(a) It is broken.
(b) It has disappeared.
(c) It is in the oven.
(d) It is in the front yard.

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

7. What does Jared's mother ask him?
(a) Where the serving silver is.
(b) What he did with Simon's mice.
(c) Why he broke her favorite bowl.
(d) Why he misses his dad so much.

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

9. Why is there tension among Mallory, Jared and Simon?
(a) Because their father is supposed to be coming home soon.
(b) There is not tension; they are best of friends.
(c) Because Jared tries to order Mallory and Simon around.
(d) Because of what happened to Mallory.

10. Who does Simon suspect in the Mallory episode?
(a) Jared.
(b) A poltergeist.
(c) The squirrel creature.
(d) Mallory did it to herself for attention.

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

12. What does Mallory doubt?
(a) Who actually did the "crime."
(b) If Jared actually found the book or if someone gave it to him.
(c) If Simon will ever be a good fencer.
(d) If their mother would believe that a faerie had anything to do with that morning.

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

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

15. Where does Jared decide to go?
(a) The attic.
(b) The basement.
(c) To the town.
(d) To climb the highest tree in the yard.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Jared's mother as she wakes him in the morning?

2. Where is Mallory bruised?

3. What does the field guide suggest ways to track?

4. What does Jared have to do before he can finish his tracking efforts?

5. How is the children's mother acting as she serves the meal?

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