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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 did the children hear in the wall?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Someone mumbling to himself.
(c) Small footsteps and scratching.
(d) A low moaning sound.

2. Where does the dumbwaiter go upstairs?
(a) Into a small library.
(b) To the bathroom.
(c) Into Jared's bedroom.
(d) Into Mrs. Grace's office.

3. What tended to drown out the noises of Simon's animals in the children's previous house?
(a) Their father's snoring.
(b) Cars and sirens.
(c) The whine of the refrigerator.
(d) The place was sound proof.

4. What does Jared think could be in the heating ducts since it is an old house?
(a) Rats.
(b) Birds.
(c) Mice.
(d) Huge spider webs.

5. What stopped Jared as he was walking towards the wall where he heard a noise?
(a) Sticky goo on the floor.
(b) A creaking board.
(c) Piled up furniture.
(d) A hole in the floor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mrs. Grace tell Mallory to do when she left for the store?

2. What has made many of the bedrooms dangerous?

3. Why do the children say they cannot send their book by mail?

4. What does Mallory want Jared and Simon to do?

5. What does Jared's mother say to him when they are unloading the car?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the note at the beginning of the book say, and what does the book store clerk give the authors? What is the authors' response?

2. What does Jared see when he gets out of the dumbwaiter?

3. Why are Simon and Jared sharing a bedroom?

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

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

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

7. What does Mrs. Grace say about the previous resident of their new home?

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

9. What is the additional worry about the Graces' new home?

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

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