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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 was the Graces' previous home?
(a) A farm.
(b) A small apartment.
(c) A ranch style house.
(d) A modern beachhome.

2. What was in the kitchen sink when the children arrived in that room?
(a) A small, funny looking man.
(b) A white rat.
(c) A garden snake.
(d) A pan crusted with macaroni and cheese.

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

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

5. What was in the Mason jars Simon carries into the house?
(a) Two king snakes.
(b) Mice.
(c) Crickets.
(d) Lightning bugs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was strung up like garland in the wall?

2. Where did he get the animals in question #36?

3. Where did the Graces live before moving to Aunt Lucinda's house?

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

5. What makes Mallory look like a ghost?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Mrs. Grace say about the previous resident of their new home?

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

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

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

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

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 when he gets out of the dumbwaiter?

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