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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what does Jared think concerning mystical creatures?
(a) That they are not real.
(b) That they are not friendly.
(c) That they may be all around them.
(d) He is busy putting together a model airplane and not thinking of anything else.

2. How is Jared's mother as she wakes him in the morning?
(a) Upset.
(b) Angry.
(c) Confused.
(d) Cheerful.

3. What intensifies Helen Grace's concerns about Jared's morning activities?
(a) Her thoughts about his possible culpability concerning Mallory's hair and bruises.
(b) Jared has epilepsy and could have an attack while climbing.
(c) That he did not do his home study lesson plans before going out.
(d) Jared is not as atheletic as Mallory or Simon and is too clumsy to climb high trees.

4. Where is there a small, spiral staircase?
(a) Near the north wall of the basement.
(b) In an abandoned building in town.
(c) In the middle of the attic room.
(d) Standing in the middle of the forrest.

5. Where does Jared find a book called Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide?
(a) In an unused room in the library in town.
(b) In a trunk in the attic.
(c) In the large hole in the tree he climbs.
(d) In the abandoned building in town.

6. What does Mallory ask Jared about her hair?
(a) If Jared thinks Mallory did it herself as a joke.
(b) If Jared thinks a faerie did it.
(c) If Jared did it.
(d) If Jared thinks Simon did it.

7. What does Simon believe about Jared?
(a) That he is the worse brother one could have.
(b) That he is not guilty.
(c) That he is guilty but has a good reason.
(d) Simon has not opinion yet about Jared's actions.

8. What has strange words from newspaper clippings?
(a) The weird nest the children found.
(b) The ice around the tadpoles.
(c) The back pages of the Field Guide.
(d) The flour on the floor of the kitchen.

9. About what phrase in the poem does Jared wonder?
(a) Through and through and through again.
(b) Up and up and up again.
(c) Back and back and back again.
(d) Down and down and down again.

10. Who does Simon suspect in the Mallory episode?
(a) Jared.
(b) Mallory did it to herself for attention.
(c) A poltergeist.
(d) The squirrel creature.

11. Why is there tension among Mallory, Jared and Simon?
(a) Because of what happened to Mallory.
(b) Because Jared tries to order Mallory and Simon around.
(c) There is not tension; they are best of friends.
(d) Because their father is supposed to be coming home soon.

12. What does Jared's mom recall about Jared's school days?
(a) The times Jared's father would go and watch Jared's ball games.
(b) The fact that the teachers always say he is a daydreamer.
(c) The violent fights he participated in.
(d) The high grades Jared always received.

13. What does Jared think is possible about the book?
(a) It is not meant to be a serious treatise.
(b) It is the only copy in existence.
(c) It was written by his great-great grandfather.
(d) It is one of just a few of its kind.

14. About what is Simon talking at the table?
(a) The possibility of ghosts in the house.
(b) Some baby birds.
(c) His new tadpoles.
(d) An injured rabbit he finds.

15. What does the book describe?
(a) How to survive in the wilderness.
(b) Faeries and mystical creatures.
(c) Birds and animals of the area.
(d) How to survive a ghost haunting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jared have to do before he can finish his tracking efforts?

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

3. What does Mallory think about what is on the floor?

4. How is the book illustrated?

5. What does Jared think he is dealing with as far as what attacked Mallory?

(see the answer keys)

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