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

3. 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.

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

5. About what phrase in the poem does Jared wonder?
(a) Up and up and up again.
(b) Back and back and back again.
(c) Down and down and down again.
(d) Through and through and through again.

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

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

12. How is the children's mother acting as she serves the meal?
(a) Angry.
(b) Depressed.
(c) Animated.
(d) Quiet.

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

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

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