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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 has made many of the bedrooms dangerous?
(a) Dead animals lying around.
(b) All the windows are broken and glass is everywhere.
(c) Leaking roof.
(d) The walls are sagging.

2. What was the only piece of furniture in the dining room?
(a) A long table.
(b) Three chairs.
(c) A china cabinet.
(d) A battered sideboard.

3. Where did he get the animals in question #36?
(a) In the woods.
(b) In the storeroom in the basement of their old place.
(c) Out of Mrs. Levette's apartment.
(d) In their bathroom.

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

5. What does Simon ask his mother about having to stay in his room?
(a) What is they see a ghost?
(b) What if they have to go to the bathroom?
(c) What if they get scared?
(d) What is they get thirsty?

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jared think could be in the heating ducts since it is an old house?

2. Where does the dumbwaiter go upstairs?

3. What was poked in the wood in the walls that resembled a snake?

4. In what do Holly and Tony both have an interest?

5. What startled Jared awake the first night?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mallory decide to do the first night in the kitchen and where is her mother?

2. How does Jared get back downstairs?

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

4. What does Mallory do to the wall in the kitchen and what does she see?

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

6. What does Mallory say about their new home, why does Jared think it will be good for Simon and what does he think of the home as far as he is concerned?

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

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

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