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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

5. What do Brownies become when they get mad?
(a) Boggarts.
(b) Invisible.
(c) Shapparts.
(d) All puffed up.

6. What does Jared's mother have him do?
(a) Start in immediately on his home study lessons.
(b) Go look at the kitchen.
(c) Go look at the sycamore tree in the front yard.
(d) Clean the woodshed.

7. What does Jared hear in the morning?
(a) Mallory and Simon yelling.
(b) Mallory screaming.
(c) Absolute silence.
(d) Mallory making breakfast.

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

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

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

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

12. What enrages Helen about what Simon says?
(a) That he sides with his brother even though his brother has killed Simon's pets.
(b) That he is talking nonsense.
(c) That Simon thinks Jared has a good reason for what he did.
(d) That Simon is siding with Mallory as usual.

13. What is Helen Grace's biggest concern about Jared's activities that morning?
(a) That he could fall out of the tall sycamore with the large hole in it.
(b) That he could fall through the floor of the attic.
(c) She is not concerned as she knows Jared can take care of himself.
(d) That he could get in trouble for trespassing into the abandoned building.

14. What is the picture in Jared's book that looks like an old man with a heavy coat and scarf?
(a) A human invader.
(b) A boggart.
(c) An elf.
(d) A sylvan in disguise when its left its tree.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jared's mom recall about Jared's school days?

2. Where is there a large hole where Jared goes?

3. What does Jared spread on the floor of the kitchen?

4. What does Mallory call the book Jared finds?

5. What does Jared realize about a chest?

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