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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to the bowl Jared had set out?
(a) It has disappeared.
(b) It is in the oven.
(c) It is in the front yard.
(d) It is broken.

2. Where is there a large hole where Jared goes?
(a) In the road on the way to town.
(b) In the tree trunk about thirty feet up.
(c) Where a window is broken in the basement.
(d) Opposite end from the suitcase.

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

4. How is the book illustrated?
(a) Ink drawings.
(b) Watercolor pictures.
(c) Photographs are pasted on the pages.
(d) There are no illustrations.

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

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

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

8. What is Jared's response to Mallory's threats?
(a) Anger.
(b) Denial.
(c) Shame.
(d) Aloofness.

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

10. What is in the freezer?
(a) Tadpoles.
(b) A large chunk of Mallory's hair.
(c) A large bass that had not been there before.
(d) Nothing; it's been totally emtied.

11. What does Jared find when he climbs the staircase?
(a) A small room.
(b) A cask.
(c) A trombone case.
(d) A huge bird's nest.

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

13. Why does Jared put milk out in the kitchen in a bowl on the floor.
(a) To offer the boggart.
(b) To tranquilize the dog.
(c) To tranquilize the boggart.
(d) To feed the cat.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jared spread on the floor of the kitchen?

2. What is the significance of the word Spiderwick?

3. What does Simon admire as he and Jared are in their room that night?

4. What do Brownies become when they get mad?

5. What does Jared think is possible about the book?

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