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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 used to steal Dianna Beckley's Barbie dolls?
(a) Her cat.
(b) Her mice.
(c) Her rats.
(d) Her ferrets.

2. How was the package that came to Holly's door bound?
(a) With brown paper and string.
(b) With packing tape and Easter seals.
(c) With black duct tape.
(d) With a red ribbon.

3. What was sitting on top of the roof of the new home besides chimneys.
(a) An old iron fence.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A weather vane shaped like a dolphin.
(d) A huge tree branch.

4. What was on the desk that caught the light?
(a) A mirror.
(b) Old fashion, round glasses.
(c) Some glass beads.
(d) A prism.

5. What does Jared's mother say to him when they are unloading the car?
(a) He has to help his siblings.
(b) He'll make new friends.
(c) It is a chance for them to start over.
(d) The house just needs a little paint.

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides an Olympic fencer, what does Jared think his sister Mallory might do when she grows up?

2. With what does Simon have the dressers covered?

3. What is the result of the dangerous bedrooms?

4. What does Mallory tell her mother when her mother comes in the kitchen?

5. What does Mallory decide to use to put a hole in the wall?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jared hear in his new home and what does he assume?

2. What does Jared decide to do with the dumbwaiter, how do his siblings help and how does he fit?

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. 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?

5. What is the additional worry about the Graces' new home?

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

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

8. What happens as the dumbwaiter approaches the second floor?

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

10. How does Mallory feel when she sees her fencing medal and what does she do?

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