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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Simon crying?
(a) Mallory beat him again in fencing.
(b) He tripped down the stairs and twisted his ankle.
(c) His cat is missing.
(d) He has bruises on his arm.

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

3. Where does Simon go after leaving Mallory's bedroom?
(a) Outside to look for crickets.
(b) To the basement to find a knife.
(c) To the his bedroom to look for the poem.
(d) Outside to go riding.

4. What does Simon admire as he and Jared are in their room that night?
(a) His arrowhead collection.
(b) His butterfly collection.
(c) His bone collection.
(d) His pet mice.

5. About what possible relative does Jared ask?
(a) His maternal uncle named Jared.
(b) A great-great grandfather named Simon.
(c) His maternal aunt Mallory.
(d) A relative named Arthur.

6. What happens when Jared distracts Simon?
(a) Mallory gets another point.
(b) Something flies out of Simon's hair.
(c) Simon falls and breaks his wrist.
(d) Simon falls and twists his ankle.

7. What is the significance of the word Spiderwick?
(a) It is great-aunt Lucinda's maiden name.
(b) Helen Grace does not know the word.
(c) It is the name of a cave where Helen Grace and her brother Jared used to play.
(d) It is the name of the old family estate about 70 miles from there.

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

9. In general, what is the supposed nature of Brownies?
(a) Helpful.
(b) Secretive.
(c) Excited.
(d) Melancholy.

10. Who does Helen Grace suspect is involved in the Mallory episode?
(a) Jared.
(b) Her uncle.
(c) The Brownies.
(d) Simon.

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

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

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

14. What do Brownies become when they get mad?
(a) Shapparts.
(b) All puffed up.
(c) Boggarts.
(d) Invisible.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mallory doubt?

2. What is in the freezer?

3. What is odd about Mallory's hair?

4. What does the book describe?

5. Where is Mallory bruised?

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