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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jared's mother suspect?
(a) That Mallory is setting up Jared.
(b) That Jared is acting out because Mallory gets extra privileges.
(c) That Jared is acting out because his father left them.
(d) That Jared is resonsible for the mess in the kitchen.

2. What does Jared decide to do for the creature bothering them?
(a) Make it a new house.
(b) Try to talk to it.
(c) Try to kill it.
(d) Try to trap it.

3. Who turns on the light in the kitchen while Jared is waiting?
(a) Mallory.
(b) The brownie.
(c) His mom.
(d) Simon.

4. What does Jared think he is dealing with as far as what attacked Mallory?
(a) A Shappart.
(b) A Boggart.
(c) An elf.
(d) A sylvan.

5. What does the field guide suggest ways to track?
(a) A white owl.
(b) An elf.
(c) A boggart.
(d) A sylvan.

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

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

8. What does Jared realize about a chest?
(a) It could belong to any animal.
(b) It could be a man's torso.
(c) Nothing.
(d) It could be alive.

9. What do Simon and Mallory exchange?
(a) Descriptions.
(b) Books.
(c) Journals.
(d) A strange glance.

10. What is splashed on the walls?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Foodstuff.
(c) Water.
(d) Paint.

11. What does Jared's mother ask him?
(a) Why he broke her favorite bowl.
(b) What he did with Simon's mice.
(c) Why he misses his dad so much.
(d) Where the serving silver is.

12. What does Jared have to do before he can finish his tracking efforts?
(a) Clean up the flour.
(b) Go to bed.
(c) Take out the garbage.
(d) Take a bath.

13. What does Jared's mother have him do?
(a) Clean the woodshed.
(b) Start in immediately on his home study lessons.
(c) Go look at the kitchen.
(d) Go look at the sycamore tree in the front yard.

14. What is Jared talking about as Simon is wanting to sleep?
(a) A mystical creature called a brownie.
(b) If their mom is mad at Jared.
(c) If Mallory is mad at Jared.
(d) Another model airplane he wants to buy.

15. What does Simon say Jared better do at night?
(a) Wear dark clothing.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Paint his face and hands black.
(d) Stay in their bedroom.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the book illustrated?

2. What enrages Helen about what Simon says?

3. Who does Jared remember is in a psych hospital?

4. What does Jared think will help the creature to be nicer?

5. Who does Simon suspect in the Mallory episode?

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