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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was in the Mason jars Simon carries into the house?
(a) Lightning bugs.
(b) Mice.
(c) Two king snakes.
(d) Crickets.

2. What kind of wallpaper was in some of the house?
(a) Brocaded gold wallpaper.
(b) Bright red and black striped wallpaper.
(c) The wallpaper had all peeled off.
(d) Wallpaper with letters written on it.

3. What was in the kitchen sink when the children arrived in that room?
(a) A pan crusted with macaroni and cheese.
(b) A small, funny looking man.
(c) A white rat.
(d) A garden snake.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mrs. Grace tell Mallory to do when she left for the store?

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

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

4. What does the book store clerk tell Holly?

5. What did Mallory do as she led the boys down the hallway?

(see the answer key)

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