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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Jared do to block out the noise in the house?
(a) Cover his head with a pillow.
(b) Put in ear plugs.
(c) Shut his bedroom door.
(d) Play his music loud.

2. 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 they are on a vacation.
(c) That they have the wrong address.
(d) That the house will not be livable.

3. When does Jared say his life started going bad?
(a) When he entered seventh grade.
(b) When his father moved out.
(c) When his father died.
(d) When his best friend moved away.

4. What was poked in the wood in the walls that resembled a snake?
(a) Nails.
(b) Thumbtacks.
(c) Toothpicks.
(d) Straight pins.

5. What does Mallory want Jared and Simon to do?
(a) Give her a bar from his candy stash.
(b) Go down to the kitchen.
(c) Find a pan for the leak.
(d) Come to her bedroom and talk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Simon's pets his mother did not want?

2. How does Jared get upstairs on the dumbwaiter?

3. Besides an Olympic fencer, what does Jared think his sister Mallory might do when she grows up?

4. Where did the Graces live before moving to Aunt Lucinda's house?

5. What does Jared's mother say to him when they are unloading the car?

(see the answer key)

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