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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what phrase in the poem does Jared wonder?
(a) Back and back and back again.
(b) Up and up and up again.
(c) Through and through and through again.
(d) Down and down and down again.

2. What does Mallory think about what is on the floor?
(a) That Jared made the tracks.
(b) She says they are not tracks.
(c) That the dead rat made the tracks before it died.
(d) That a mouse made the tracks.

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

4. What enrages Helen about what Simon says?
(a) That Simon is siding with Mallory as usual.
(b) That he sides with his brother even though his brother has killed Simon's pets.
(c) That he is talking nonsense.
(d) That Simon thinks Jared has a good reason for what he did.

5. What was stuffed in the space between the boards in the wall?
(a) Cloth.
(b) Chicken wire.
(c) Old newspaper.
(d) More plaster.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jared's mom ask him to find?

2. What does Jared decide to do for the creature bothering them?

3. What do Simon and Mallory exchange?

4. How does Jared get upstairs on the dumbwaiter?

5. What does Jared take outside of the house?

(see the answer key)

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