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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Simon say Jared better do at night?
(a) Wear dark clothing.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Paint his face and hands black.
(d) Stay in their bedroom.

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

3. About what is Simon talking at the table?
(a) His new tadpoles.
(b) An injured rabbit he finds.
(c) Some baby birds.
(d) The possibility of ghosts in the house.

4. What does Jared think is possible about the book?
(a) It is not meant to be a serious treatise.
(b) It is the only copy in existence.
(c) It is one of just a few of its kind.
(d) It was written by his great-great grandfather.

5. 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 violent fights he participated in.
(c) The high grades Jared always received.
(d) The times Jared's father would go and watch Jared's ball games.

6. 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.

7. Why is Simon crying?
(a) He tripped down the stairs and twisted his ankle.
(b) He has bruises on his arm.
(c) Mallory beat him again in fencing.
(d) His cat is missing.

8. What is one reason might the creature be bothering Mallory?
(a) Because the Grace children have invaded its space.
(b) Because the children do not believe in it.
(c) Because Jared disturbed the tree in the yard.
(d) Because Jared found the book.

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

10. Who does Helen Grace suspect is involved in the Mallory episode?
(a) The Brownies.
(b) Jared.
(c) Her uncle.
(d) Simon.

11. What do Simon and Mallory exchange?
(a) Journals.
(b) Descriptions.
(c) A strange glance.
(d) Books.

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

13. What does Jared think he is dealing with as far as what attacked Mallory?
(a) A Boggart.
(b) A sylvan.
(c) A Shappart.
(d) An elf.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Brownies become when they get mad?

2. Who does Simon suspect in the Mallory episode?

3. What does Jared suggest about a poem?

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

5. What has strange words from newspaper clippings?

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