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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 is Thomas excited about in Chapter 1?
(a) Moving into a house with an important history.
(b) Moving in the mountain.
(c) Moving near the sea.
(d) Moving near a Civil War battlefield and museum.

2. Where is Thomas when he makes his discovery?
(a) On the roof of a house
(b) Above a geothermal source.
(c) Above a secret tunnel.
(d) Above a capped well.

3. What do the boy and the girl argue about?
(a) The boy wants the bike the girl is riding on.
(b) The girl wants to talk to Thomas.
(c) The boy wants to continue exploring the forest.
(d) The boy wants the girl to come home.

4. What does Thomas' father think the sound really was?
(a) A prank by local children.
(b) A ghost.
(c) The wind.
(d) Mr. Pluto's bellows.

5. What does Thomas discover on the front door?
(a) A note.
(b) A switch.
(c) A button.
(d) A handle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country did Dies Drear send his guest to?

2. How does the intruder enter the house?

3. Where does Thomas fall asleep?

4. What do Thomas and his father agree the triangles are?

5. What does Mr. Pluto's gesture suggest to Thomas?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens while the Small family sleeps?

2. How is the house of Dies Drear described at the start of Chapter 3?

3. Who is the house they were moving to once owned by?

4. What did Dies Drear give to others according to Chapter 2?

5. Why did Thomas send the people that arrived away?

6. What does Mr. Small find with the diagram he makes?

7. At the start of Chapter 4, who arrives at the house?

8. What does Thomas do outside of the house in Chapter 6?

9. What does Mr. Small do to the mechanism?

10. Where does Thomas' father find Mr. Pluto in Chapter 7?

(see the answer keys)

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