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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the first line of the poem on the paper about?
(a) Ships sailing at night.
(b) Lucinda.
(c) The full moon.
(d) A man's torso.

2. About what possible relative does Jared ask?
(a) A great-great grandfather named Simon.
(b) A relative named Arthur.
(c) His maternal aunt Mallory.
(d) His maternal uncle named Jared.

3. What is Jared's response to Mallory's threats?
(a) Aloofness.
(b) Anger.
(c) Denial.
(d) Shame.

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

5. Besides an Olympic fencer, what does Jared think his sister Mallory might do when she grows up?
(a) Live in Paris.
(b) Have five children.
(c) Be president of the United States.
(d) Be in jail.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the bowl Jared had set out?

2. What stopped Jared as he was walking towards the wall where he heard a noise?

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

4. What does Jared think is possible about the book?

5. What is one reason might the creature be bothering Mallory?

(see the answer key)

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