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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jared take outside of the house?
(a) A small box.
(b) A brown paper sack.
(c) A black plastic garbage bag.
(d) A large basket.

2. How is the book illustrated?
(a) Ink drawings.
(b) There are no illustrations.
(c) Photographs are pasted on the pages.
(d) Watercolor pictures.

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

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

5. 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 is not as atheletic as Mallory or Simon and is too clumsy to climb high trees.
(c) Jared has epilepsy and could have an attack while climbing.
(d) Her thoughts about his possible culpability concerning Mallory's hair and bruises.

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

7. What does Jared spread on the floor of the kitchen?
(a) Flour.
(b) Bread crumbs.
(c) Water.
(d) Nothing.

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

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

10. What does Jared's mom recall about Jared's school days?
(a) The high grades Jared always received.
(b) The times Jared's father would go and watch Jared's ball games.
(c) The violent fights he participated in.
(d) The fact that the teachers always say he is a daydreamer.

11. 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.

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

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

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

15. What shocks Helen Grace about her conversation with Jared?
(a) That he found out about the word Spiderwick in the attic.
(b) That Jared asks some very mature questions for his age.
(c) That Jared thinks his mom is hiding something from them.
(d) That Jared believes his great-great grandfather is still alive.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Helen make Jared do?

4. What is Jared's response to Mallory's threats?

5. What happens when Jared distracts Simon?

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