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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jared think there could be in the basement with bad luck?
(a) A bear.
(b) A lot of slime and mold.
(c) A rattlesnake nest.
(d) A foot of water.

2. What tended to drown out the noises of Simon's animals in the children's previous house?
(a) Their father's snoring.
(b) The place was sound proof.
(c) Cars and sirens.
(d) The whine of the refrigerator.

3. Where does Mallory tell her mother Jared must be?
(a) In bed asleep.
(b) Out in the yard.
(c) In the living room.
(d) In the bathroom.

4. What startled Jared awake the first night?
(a) Simon yelling at him.
(b) The hinges on his bedroom door creaking.
(c) Something walking across his bed.
(d) The window blowing open.

5. What did Jared see when he sat up after he was awoken?
(a) Simon standing by the window.
(b) A mouse running across the floor.
(c) A figure dressed in white.
(d) A white owl on the window sill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mallory do as she led the boys down the hallway?

2. What does Mallory grab on Jared?

3. How does Jared get upstairs on the dumbwaiter?

4. What does the letter in the introduction say happens to the relationship between Holly and Tony?

5. What did Mallory give Jared to use for light?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Grace children tell Ms. Black when they meet?

2. What does Mallory tell Simon and Jared about their Aunt Lucinda?

3. What is the painting Jared sees in the little room on the second floor?

4. What do the children think about who might be in the wall and what does Mallory hear in the dumbwaiter?

5. What does the note at the beginning of the book say, and what does the book store clerk give the authors? What is the authors' response?

6. What does Simon do first in his new bedroom?

7. How is Jared feeling when he comes back downstairs, what does Mallory tell him and how does their mother hear them? What does their mother tell the children?

8. What does Jared see when he gets out of the dumbwaiter?

9. What does the poem that Jared found contain and what does he hear as he is thinking about it?

10. What does Jared see the first night when he is startled awake?

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