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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 was the first line of the poem on the paper about?
(a) Lucinda.
(b) The full moon.
(c) A man's torso.
(d) Ships sailing at night.

2. What did Jared hear when he stopped walking in the kitchen?
(a) Hissing in the wall.
(b) A low moaning noise in the wall.
(c) The scrap of a chair being dragged across the floor.
(d) Something scrambling upward inside the wall.

3. What was the Graces' previous home?
(a) A modern beachhome.
(b) A small apartment.
(c) A farm.
(d) A ranch style house.

4. When does Jared say his life started going bad?
(a) When he entered seventh grade.
(b) When his best friend moved away.
(c) When his father died.
(d) When his father moved out.

5. What kind of dwarves was one book about?
(a) English.
(b) Irish.
(c) Scottish.
(d) American.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jared see when he sat up after he was awoken?

2. With what does Simon have the dressers covered?

3. What was in the kitchen sink when the children arrived in that room?

4. For what did Mrs. Grace go to the store?

5. What does Mallory grab on Jared?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why are Simon and Jared sharing a bedroom?

5. What does Simon do first in his new bedroom?

6. What do the Grace children tell Ms. Black when they meet?

7. What does the poem that Jared found contain and what does he hear as he is thinking about it?

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

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

10. 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?

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