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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is there tension among Mallory, Jared and Simon?
(a) There is not tension; they are best of friends.
(b) Because Jared tries to order Mallory and Simon around.
(c) Because of what happened to Mallory.
(d) Because their father is supposed to be coming home soon.

2. What does Mallory ask Jared about her hair?
(a) If Jared thinks Simon did it.
(b) If Jared did it.
(c) If Jared thinks Mallory did it herself as a joke.
(d) If Jared thinks a faerie did it.

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

4. What does Simon believe about Jared?
(a) Simon has not opinion yet about Jared's actions.
(b) That he is not guilty.
(c) That he is guilty but has a good reason.
(d) That he is the worse brother one could have.

5. 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.

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

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

8. What is one reason might the creature be bothering Mallory?
(a) Because Jared found the book.
(b) Because Jared disturbed the tree in the yard.
(c) Because the children do not believe in it.
(d) Because the Grace children have invaded its space.

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

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

11. 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.

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

13. Where does Jared find a book called Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide?
(a) In a trunk in the attic.
(b) In the abandoned building in town.
(c) In an unused room in the library in town.
(d) In the large hole in the tree he climbs.

14. What does Mallory doubt?
(a) Who actually did the "crime."
(b) If Jared actually found the book or if someone gave it to him.
(c) If Simon will ever be a good fencer.
(d) If their mother would believe that a faerie had anything to do with that morning.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Mallory bruised?

2. What is the significance of the word Spiderwick?

3. What does Mallory think about what is on the floor?

4. What happens when Jared distracts Simon?

5. What shocks Helen Grace about her conversation with Jared?

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