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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 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.

2. What kind of wallpaper was in some of the house?
(a) Brocaded gold wallpaper.
(b) Wallpaper with letters written on it.
(c) The wallpaper had all peeled off.
(d) Bright red and black striped wallpaper.

3. What was stuffed in the space between the boards in the wall?
(a) Cloth.
(b) More plaster.
(c) Chicken wire.
(d) Old newspaper.

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

5. What did Jared do to block out the noise in the house?
(a) Cover his head with a pillow.
(b) Put in ear plugs.
(c) Shut his bedroom door.
(d) Play his music loud.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Jared think he probably heard?

3. For what did Mrs. Grace go to the store?

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

5. What is the name of Simon's pets his mother did not want?

Short Essay Questions

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

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 is the additional worry about the Graces' new home?

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

6. 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?

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

8. What does their mother make Mallory do with the dumbwaiter and how can Jared see where he is?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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