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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction, Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jared wish was happening as they are unloading their car?
(a) That they are on a vacation.
(b) That they have the wrong address.
(c) That his mother was there just to write an article.
(d) That the house will not be livable.

2. What was sitting on top of the roof of the new home besides chimneys.
(a) A huge tree branch.
(b) A weather vane shaped like a dolphin.
(c) Nothing.
(d) An old iron fence.

3. Where did the Graces live before moving to Aunt Lucinda's house?
(a) North Carolina.
(b) New York.
(c) Washington D.C.
(d) New Jersy.

4. What color were the doors on the old house?
(a) Black.
(b) Antique White.
(c) Fire engine Red.
(d) Faded grey.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of wallpaper was in some of the house?

2. What does Jared think there could be in the basement with bad luck?

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

4. What was in the Mason jars Simon carries into the house?

5. What was the Graces' previous home?

(see the answer key)

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