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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jared take outside of the house?
(a) A small box.
(b) A large basket.
(c) A black plastic garbage bag.
(d) A brown paper sack.

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

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

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

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

6. What does Mallory think about what is on the floor?
(a) That Jared made the tracks.
(b) That the dead rat made the tracks before it died.
(c) That a mouse made the tracks.
(d) She says they are not tracks.

7. Who does Jared remember is in a psych hospital?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) His great-aunt Lucinda.
(c) His great-grandfather.
(d) His uncle.

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

9. 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 is the only copy in existence.
(d) It was written by his great-great grandfather.

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

11. What does the book describe?
(a) Birds and animals of the area.
(b) How to survive a ghost haunting.
(c) Faeries and mystical creatures.
(d) How to survive in the wilderness.

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

13. How is Jared's mother as she wakes him in the morning?
(a) Angry.
(b) Cheerful.
(c) Upset.
(d) Confused.

14. What does Jared spread on the floor of the kitchen?
(a) Bread crumbs.
(b) Flour.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Water.

15. Where does Jared decide to go?
(a) To climb the highest tree in the yard.
(b) The attic.
(c) To the town.
(d) The basement.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Mallory bruised?

2. What does Jared's mother suspect?

3. What does Mallory doubt?

4. Who does Helen Grace suspect is involved in the Mallory episode?

5. What is one reason might the creature be bothering Mallory?

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