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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 did Mallory do as she led the boys down the hallway?
(a) Stop every few steps to listen.
(b) Keeps grabbing Jared's arm.
(c) Sneezes every three steps.
(d) Whispers instructions.

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

3. What did Jared hear when he stopped walking in the kitchen?
(a) A low moaning noise in the wall.
(b) Hissing in the wall.
(c) Something scrambling upward inside the wall.
(d) The scrap of a chair being dragged across the floor.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How was the package that came to Holly's door bound?

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

3. What did the children hear in the wall?

4. What did Mrs. Grace tell Mallory to do when she left for the store?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How is Jared feeling when he comes back downstairs, what does Mallory tell him and how does their mother hear them? What does their mother tell the children?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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