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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What startled Jared awake the first night?
(a) The window blowing open.
(b) Something walking across his bed.
(c) The hinges on his bedroom door creaking.
(d) Simon yelling at him.

7. What has made many of the bedrooms dangerous?
(a) The walls are sagging.
(b) Dead animals lying around.
(c) Leaking roof.
(d) All the windows are broken and glass is everywhere.

8. What does Mallory decide to use to put a hole in the wall?
(a) A hammer.
(b) Her sword.
(c) A chair leg.
(d) A broom.

9. What did Mallory do as she led the boys down the hallway?
(a) Stop every few steps to listen.
(b) Whispers instructions.
(c) Keeps grabbing Jared's arm.
(d) Sneezes every three steps.

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

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

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

13. What happens when Jared jumps from what he sees?
(a) His candle goes out.
(b) He sits down.
(c) He knocks over the glasses.
(d) He trips on the desk chair.

14. What was strung up like garland in the wall?
(a) Crickets strung on dental floss.
(b) Dead cockroaches.
(c) Popcorn strung on yarn.
(d) Dried mice bodies.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of Simon's pets his mother did not want?

3. What did Simon's mother say he had to leave behind?

4. What did Jared do to block out the noise in the house?

5. What was the first line of the poem on the paper about?

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