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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 happens to Jared's candle when he rushed across the room?
(a) Nothing.
(b) It becomes brighter.
(c) It falls and catches the rug on fire.
(d) It choked on wax and sputtered.

2. What does Jared think his siblings don't know since they left the kitchen with him still upstairs?
(a) That he wants to talk to them.
(b) That he is in a room without a door.
(c) That he has gone to bed.
(d) That he wants to wait to come down until he reads the Field Guide.

3. What did Jared think he probably heard?
(a) A squirrel.
(b) His mother pulling a chair in the living room.
(c) The wind across the roof.
(d) Simon playing a joke.

4. What did Mallory give Jared to use for light?
(a) A candle.
(b) A kerosene lantern.
(c) Her ipod.
(d) A flashlight.

5. What did Mallory do as she led the boys down the hallway?
(a) Sneezes every three steps.
(b) Stop every few steps to listen.
(c) Whispers instructions.
(d) Keeps grabbing Jared's arm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did he get the animals in question #36?

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

3. What startled Jared awake the first night?

4. What does Jared's mother say she is going to do if she finds the children wandering the house again?

5. What does Simon say to Jared when they are back in their bedroom?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are Simon and Jared sharing a bedroom?

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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