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

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

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

5. What does Helen make Jared do?
(a) Apologize to Mallory and Simon.
(b) Add extra reading assignments to his studies.
(c) Clean the kitchen.
(d) Call his dad and tell him what Jared did.

6. What does Jared have to do before he can finish his tracking efforts?
(a) Go to bed.
(b) Take out the garbage.
(c) Clean up the flour.
(d) Take a bath.

7. What does Jared think will help the creature to be nicer?
(a) Leaving it something everyday.
(b) Leaving it the Field Guide.
(c) Giving it a new house.
(d) The humans moving.

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

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

10. What does a note say that the children find?
(a) Beware of the mandersnatcher.
(b) It's not nice to ice the mice.
(c) Meet by the old sycamore at midnight.
(d) There is no note.

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

12. What does Jared suggest about a poem?
(a) It might provide a clue as to what happened to Mallory.
(b) It was written by their great-uncle.
(c) It was planted intentionally.
(d) It is a red herring.

13. What does Jared's mother ask him?
(a) What he did with Simon's mice.
(b) Where the serving silver is.
(c) Why he misses his dad so much.
(d) Why he broke her favorite bowl.

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

15. What does Jared see on the floor?
(a) A dead rat.
(b) A message written in the flour.
(c) Tracks made by the boggart.
(d) Tracks made by the elf.