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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Helen make Jared do?
(a) Clean the kitchen.
(b) Call his dad and tell him what Jared did.
(c) Add extra reading assignments to his studies.
(d) Apologize to Mallory and Simon.

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

3. In general, what is the supposed nature of Brownies?
(a) Secretive.
(b) Melancholy.
(c) Helpful.
(d) Excited.

4. Where is there a small, spiral staircase?
(a) Near the north wall of the basement.
(b) In the middle of the attic room.
(c) In an abandoned building in town.
(d) Standing in the middle of the forrest.

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

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

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

8. What does Jared do once he is outside with what he takes?
(a) Burns the entire thing.
(b) Smashes the box with a hammer.
(c) Takes the remains of a weird nest out and leaves it in the yard.
(d) Buries the sack.

9. What does Jared's mother have him do?
(a) Go look at the kitchen.
(b) Start in immediately on his home study lessons.
(c) Go look at the sycamore tree in the front yard.
(d) Clean the woodshed.

10. What is Jared's response to Mallory's threats?
(a) Denial.
(b) Anger.
(c) Shame.
(d) Aloofness.

11. Where is there a large hole where Jared goes?
(a) In the road on the way to town.
(b) Where a window is broken in the basement.
(c) In the tree trunk about thirty feet up.
(d) Opposite end from the suitcase.

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

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

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

15. What does Jared think may be in a trunk he finds?
(a) Newspapers.
(b) Clothes.
(c) A body.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jared put milk out in the kitchen in a bowl on the floor.

2. Where does Jared decide to go?

3. What does Mallory call the book Jared finds?

4. What surprises Simon about Jared and the book Jared found?

5. What has strange words from newspaper clippings?

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