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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why is Mallory waking Jared?
(a) She wants to tell him their mother is gone.
(b) She heard the squirrel noises again.
(c) She has a leak in her bedroom.
(d) She is hungry.

4. For what did Mrs. Grace go to the store?
(a) Shampoo.
(b) Bread and peanut butter.
(c) Cereal and milk.
(d) Buckets to catch the leaks.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What tended to drown out the noises of Simon's animals in the children's previous house?

3. With what does Simon have the dressers covered?

4. How was the package that came to Holly's door bound?

5. What does Mallory say she heard about their Aunt Lucinda?

(see the answer key)

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