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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What shocks Helen Grace about her conversation with Jared?
(a) That Jared thinks his mom is hiding something from them.
(b) That Jared asks some very mature questions for his age.
(c) That he found out about the word Spiderwick in the attic.
(d) That Jared believes his great-great grandfather is still alive.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is Simon losing?
(a) His voice.
(b) The fencing match.
(c) His nighttime privileges.
(d) His baby fat.

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

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

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

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

12. What is missing from the house?
(a) The secret books.
(b) Mallory's fencing blade.
(c) Simon's pet mice.
(d) The gold coins in the office.

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

14. Where is Mallory bruised?
(a) On her arm.
(b) On her right leg.
(c) She is not bruised.
(d) On her stomach.

15. What does Jared hear in the morning?
(a) Mallory making breakfast.
(b) Mallory and Simon yelling.
(c) Mallory screaming.
(d) Absolute silence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mallory ask Jared about her hair?

2. Where is there a large hole where Jared goes?

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

4. Where does Jared decide to go?

5. What happens when Jared distracts Simon?

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