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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 Mrs. Grace think Jared and Mallory are doing in the kitchen?
(a) Arguing.
(b) Trying to fool her.
(c) Talking about Simon.
(d) Playing.

2. Where does the dumbwaiter go upstairs?
(a) Into Jared's bedroom.
(b) Into Mrs. Grace's office.
(c) Into a small library.
(d) To the bathroom.

3. What makes Mallory look like a ghost?
(a) A white nightgown and a white shawl she has over her hair.
(b) Plaster dust in her hair.
(c) She has her arms held out to her sides.
(d) Her eyes are shining in the dark.

4. When does Jared say his life started going bad?
(a) When he entered seventh grade.
(b) When his best friend moved away.
(c) When his father died.
(d) When his father moved out.

5. What does Jared wish was happening as they are unloading their car?
(a) That they have the wrong address.
(b) That they are on a vacation.
(c) That the house will not be livable.
(d) That his mother was there just to write an article.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jared not want to admit to his siblings about the sound he heard?

2. What stopped Jared as he was walking towards the wall where he heard a noise?

3. How was the package that came to Holly's door bound?

4. What does Jared show Mallory?

5. With what does Simon have the dressers covered?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Jared see when he hears a noise and how does he lose his light?

3. What does Jared recall about the events in his life since his parents' divorce and what does his mother suggest to him about their new home?

4. 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?

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

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

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

8. What does Mallory tell their mother they are doing and what does Mallory say about Jared?

9. What does the front door of the Graces' new home look like?

10. Why are Simon and Jared sharing a bedroom?

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