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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Simon say to Jared when they are back in their bedroom?
(a) He thinks Jared should get a pet.
(b) He believes Jared about the note.
(c) He believes Jared is in big trouble.
(d) He thinks Jared is crazy.

2. What startled Jared awake the first night?
(a) The hinges on his bedroom door creaking.
(b) Simon yelling at him.
(c) The window blowing open.
(d) Something walking across his bed.

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

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

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

6. What did Simon's mother pretend not to notice about what he brought?
(a) That he brought many of his father's books.
(b) That he brought fifteen animals.
(c) That he brought his father's stereo equipment.
(d) He had brought the animals she told him to leave.

7. What does Mallory stack on top of a steamer trunk?
(a) A box of dishes and a box of clothes.
(b) The case in which she carried her swords.
(c) Two suitcases.
(d) Her box of stuffed animals.

8. What was sitting on top of the roof of the new home besides chimneys.
(a) A weather vane shaped like a dolphin.
(b) An old iron fence.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A huge tree branch.

9. What was strung up like garland in the wall?
(a) Crickets strung on dental floss.
(b) Dead cockroaches.
(c) Popcorn strung on yarn.
(d) Dried mice bodies.

10. What did Simon's mother say he had to leave behind?
(a) His mice.
(b) His snakes.
(c) His rats.
(d) His black widow spider.

11. How was the package that came to Holly's door bound?
(a) With black duct tape.
(b) With a red ribbon.
(c) With brown paper and string.
(d) With packing tape and Easter seals.

12. What did Jared not want to admit to his siblings about the sound he heard?
(a) That it could be dangerous.
(b) That it could be a ghost.
(c) That it was all in his imagination.
(d) That he was going to run away from this awful house.

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

14. What does Mallory say she heard about their Aunt Lucinda?
(a) She is still waiting for her husband to return.
(b) She is willing the house to them.
(c) She is not really insane.
(d) She was starving herself to death.

15. What does Jared wish was happening as they are unloading their car?
(a) That his mother was there just to write an article.
(b) That the house will not be livable.
(c) That they have the wrong address.
(d) That they are on a vacation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of books does Jared see in the library?

2. In what do Holly and Tony both have an interest?

3. What color were the doors on the old house?

4. What used to steal Dianna Beckley's Barbie dolls?

5. What does Mrs. Grace tell Mallory to do?

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