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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mallory tell her mother when her mother comes in the kitchen?
(a) She has forgotten her book.
(b) There is a squirrel in the wall.
(c) She is thirsty.
(d) She isn't sleepy.

2. Besides an Olympic fencer, what does Jared think his sister Mallory might do when she grows up?
(a) Have five children.
(b) Be in jail.
(c) Be president of the United States.
(d) Live in Paris.

3. What sat on the end of the desk that had berries, dried plants and river rocks in them?
(a) Cut glass bowls.
(b) Coffee cans.
(c) Wooden bowls.
(d) Glass jars.

4. What used to steal Dianna Beckley's Barbie dolls?
(a) Her ferrets.
(b) Her rats.
(c) Her cat.
(d) Her mice.

5. What makes Mallory look like a ghost?
(a) She has her arms held out to her sides.
(b) A white nightgown and a white shawl she has over her hair.
(c) Plaster dust in her hair.
(d) Her eyes are shining in the dark.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jared not want to admit to his siblings about the sound he heard?

2. What was the little girl and man doing in the picture?

3. What does Jared wish was happening as they are unloading their car?

4. What was the photocopy sent to Holly and Tony?

5. What was the first line of the poem on the paper about?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jared think about on his brother and sister's future and his own while he stands in front of his new home?

2. What does Mallory tell Simon and Jared about their Aunt Lucinda?

3. What does Jared see when he hears a noise and how does he lose his light?

4. What does Jared recall about the events in his life since his parents' divorce and what does his mother suggest to him about their new home?

5. What does their mother make Mallory do with the dumbwaiter and how can Jared see where he is?

6. What does Jared decide to do with the dumbwaiter, how do his siblings help and how does he fit?

7. What does Mallory tell their mother they are doing and what does Mallory say about Jared?

8. What does Jared see the first night when he is startled awake?

9. What do the children think about who might be in the wall and what does Mallory hear in the dumbwaiter?

10. How does Mallory feel when she sees her fencing medal and what does she do?

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