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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 mom ask him to find?
(a) A way to join the little league team in that town.
(b) A way to seal the basement window.
(c) A constructive way to deal with his anger.
(d) A way to seal the attic hole.

2. What is odd about Mallory's hair?
(a) It is green.
(b) It is extremely short and blue.
(c) It is blue.
(d) It is tied in strands to the bedpost.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. What enrages Helen about what Simon says?
(a) That he is talking nonsense.
(b) That Simon is siding with Mallory as usual.
(c) That Simon thinks Jared has a good reason for what he did.
(d) That he sides with his brother even though his brother has killed Simon's pets.

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

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

14. What does Jared think may be in a trunk he finds?
(a) A body.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Clothes.
(d) Newspapers.

15. What surprises Simon about Jared and the book Jared found?
(a) Jared's facination with the book.
(b) Jared writing in the book when he has never allowed Simon to do such a thing to any book.
(c) Jared's disinterest in the book after his initial excitement.
(d) Jared's unwillingness to let anyone else look at the book.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jared decide to go?

2. What does Jared realize about a chest?

3. What is Jared's response to Mallory's threats?

4. Why is Simon crying?

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

(see the answer keys)

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