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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 stopped Jared as he was walking towards the wall where he heard a noise?
(a) A creaking board.
(b) Sticky goo on the floor.
(c) A hole in the floor.
(d) Piled up furniture.

2. What do the Grace children claim about their book?
(a) It identifies faeries and gives ways to protect from them.
(b) It was written a thousand years ago.
(c) It shows how to hypnotize a faery.
(d) It was found in a faery mound near their house.

3. What does Mallory tell her mother when her mother comes in the kitchen?
(a) She is thirsty.
(b) She isn't sleepy.
(c) There is a squirrel in the wall.
(d) She has forgotten her book.

4. What do most of the books concern?
(a) Child raising.
(b) Gardening.
(c) Mental illness.
(d) Faeries and mythical creatures.

5. What is the result of the dangerous bedrooms?
(a) Mallory has to sleep downstairs.
(b) Their mother has to sleep downstairs.
(c) Jared and Simon have to share a bedroom.
(d) Jared has a smaller bedroom than Simon or Mallory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jared see when he sat up after he was awoken?

2. What does Jared show Mallory?

3. What kind of dwarves was one book about?

4. How does Jared get upstairs on the dumbwaiter?

5. What does Mallory stack on top of a steamer trunk?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mallory tell Simon and Jared about their Aunt Lucinda?

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

3. 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?

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

5. 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?

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

7. What does Jared think about on his brother and sister's future and his own while he stands in front of his new home?

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

9. What kind of books does Jared see in the second floor room?

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

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