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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 Jared think will help the creature to be nicer?
(a) The humans moving.
(b) Leaving it the Field Guide.
(c) Giving it a new house.
(d) Leaving it something everyday.

2. Why does Jared put milk out in the kitchen in a bowl on the floor.
(a) To tranquilize the dog.
(b) To tranquilize the boggart.
(c) To offer the boggart.
(d) To feed the cat.

3. Where does Jared decide to go?
(a) The basement.
(b) To the town.
(c) To climb the highest tree in the yard.
(d) The attic.

4. What does Jared's mom ask him to find?
(a) A constructive way to deal with his anger.
(b) A way to join the little league team in that town.
(c) A way to seal the attic hole.
(d) A way to seal the basement window.

5. What does Jared have to do before he can finish his tracking efforts?
(a) Take out the garbage.
(b) Clean up the flour.
(c) Take a bath.
(d) Go to bed.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what possible relative does Jared ask?

2. What does Jared see on the floor?

3. Where is Mallory bruised?

4. What is Helen Grace's biggest concern about Jared's activities that morning?

5. What is Jared talking about as Simon is wanting to sleep?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jared point out in the kitchen and what happens to his evidence?

2. What is the most upsetting thing about the problems downstairs and what does Jared's mother accuse him of concerning Simon's mice?

3. What does Jared do with the black plastic garbage bag and what does he see inside it?

4. How does Jared's mother feel about him going to the attic?

5. How does Jared feel about the trunk in the attic and what does he do with the trunk? What does he find?

6. What does Jared decide to do to calm the boggart and what does he carry into the house? What is his mother's reaction to Jared's load?

7. What does Simon look at that Jared shows him and what does he wonder?

8. What is Jared doing that night that surprises Simon, what is Simon doing and what is Jared thinking about?

9. What does Jared's mother say to him about his anger?

10. What phrase is Jared thinking about in the poem, and where does he decide to go?

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