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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Opposite end from the suitcase.
(d) In the tree trunk about thirty feet up.

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

8. What shocks Helen Grace about her conversation with Jared?
(a) That Jared thinks his mom is hiding something from them.
(b) That Jared believes his great-great grandfather is still alive.
(c) That Jared asks some very mature questions for his age.
(d) That he found out about the word Spiderwick in the attic.

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

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

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

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Jared find when he climbs the staircase?

3. What do Brownies become when they get mad?

4. What intensifies Helen Grace's concerns about Jared's morning activities?

5. What is the picture in Jared's book that looks like an old man with a heavy coat and scarf?

(see the answer keys)

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