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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mallory grab on Jared?
(a) His pants.
(b) His shirt.
(c) His belt.
(d) His shoulder.

2. What does Jared's mother say she is going to do if she finds the children wandering the house again?
(a) Cut off the television for a week.
(b) Make them clean the yard.
(c) Lock them in their rooms.
(d) Put them on restriction.

3. Where does the dumbwaiter go upstairs?
(a) To the bathroom.
(b) Into a small library.
(c) Into Mrs. Grace's office.
(d) Into Jared's bedroom.

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

5. What did Simon's mother pretend not to notice about what he brought?
(a) That he brought many of his father's books.
(b) That he brought his father's stereo equipment.
(c) That he brought fifteen animals.
(d) He had brought the animals she told him to leave.

6. What did Mrs. Grace tell Mallory to do when she left for the store?
(a) To keep an eye on the boys.
(b) Unpack her suitcases.
(c) Fiind the coffee maker.
(d) Clean her bedroom.

7. What is the name of Simon's pets his mother did not want?
(a) Blacknose and Pinkear.
(b) Jeffrey and Lemondrop.
(c) Jeckle and Hyde.
(d) Dewey and Lewie.

8. What does the book store clerk tell Holly?
(a) They have run out of books.
(b) They have fifty more fans who want her signature.
(c) He has a letter for Holly and Tony.
(d) There are no more fans wanting signed books.

9. What was stuffed in the space between the boards in the wall?
(a) More plaster.
(b) Cloth.
(c) Old newspaper.
(d) Chicken wire.

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

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

12. What was the main problem with Jared's mattress?
(a) It was too thin.
(b) It smells like dead animals.
(c) It was lumpy.
(d) It has a hole with stuffing coming out of it.

13. What sat on the end of the desk that had berries, dried plants and river rocks in them?
(a) Cut glass bowls.
(b) Coffee cans.
(c) Wooden bowls.
(d) Glass jars.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the children say they cannot send their book by mail?

2. What was in the kitchen sink when the children arrived in that room?

3. What was the photocopy sent to Holly and Tony?

4. With what does Simon have the dressers covered?

5. What did Jared see when he spun around after hearing a noise behind him?

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