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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Mallory stack on top of a steamer trunk?
(a) The case in which she carried her swords.
(b) Two suitcases.
(c) A box of dishes and a box of clothes.
(d) Her box of stuffed animals.

3. Where did he get the animals in question #36?
(a) Out of Mrs. Levette's apartment.
(b) In the storeroom in the basement of their old place.
(c) In their bathroom.
(d) In the woods.

4. What does Simon ask his mother about having to stay in his room?
(a) What if they have to go to the bathroom?
(b) What if they get scared?
(c) What is they get thirsty?
(d) What is they see a ghost?

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

6. What tended to drown out the noises of Simon's animals in the children's previous house?
(a) Their father's snoring.
(b) The place was sound proof.
(c) The whine of the refrigerator.
(d) Cars and sirens.

7. In what do Holly and Tony both have an interest?
(a) Faeries.
(b) Drawing pictures.
(c) Writing.
(d) Making wine.

8. What kind of job does Jared think Simon will do when he grows up?
(a) A physician.
(b) A veterinarian or lion tamer.
(c) A politician.
(d) A lawyer.

9. What does Jared do to keep from screaming?
(a) Groans quietly.
(b) Closes his eyes and breaths deeply.
(c) Hold his hand over his mouth.
(d) Bites the inside of his lip.

10. What did Holly and Tony give to the store clerk?
(a) An envelope.
(b) A picture of a faerie.
(c) A signed book.
(d) Two tickets to their movie about faeries.

11. What used to steal Dianna Beckley's Barbie dolls?
(a) Her cat.
(b) Her rats.
(c) Her ferrets.
(d) Her mice.

12. What was the little girl and man doing in the picture?
(a) Petting a dog.
(b) Reading a book.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Playing in the yard.

13. What was the only piece of furniture in the dining room?
(a) A china cabinet.
(b) Three chairs.
(c) A long table.
(d) A battered sideboard.

14. What did Jared hear when he stopped walking in the kitchen?
(a) Something scrambling upward inside the wall.
(b) A low moaning noise in the wall.
(c) Hissing in the wall.
(d) The scrap of a chair being dragged across the floor.

15. What kind of books does Jared see in the library?
(a) Books on tape.
(b) Strange books.
(c) Very large books.
(d) Books written in a foreign language.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jared think his siblings don't know since they left the kitchen with him still upstairs?

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

3. What makes Mallory look like a ghost?

4. What was the Graces' previous home?

5. What did the children hear in the wall?

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