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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 does Jared's mother say she is going to do if she finds the children wandering the house again?
(a) Make them clean the yard.
(b) Lock them in their rooms.
(c) Cut off the television for a week.
(d) Put them on restriction.

2. What did the children hear in the wall?
(a) A low moaning sound.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Small footsteps and scratching.
(d) Someone mumbling to himself.

3. Who told Mrs. Grace that her Aunt Lucinda thinks little men bring her food?
(a) Mrs Grace's mother.
(b) Her sister, Susan.
(c) Aunt Matilda.
(d) Uncle Terrence.

4. What did Simon's mother say he had to leave behind?
(a) His black widow spider.
(b) His rats.
(c) His snakes.
(d) His mice.

5. Where does the dumbwaiter go upstairs?
(a) Into Jared's bedroom.
(b) Into Mrs. Grace's office.
(c) To the bathroom.
(d) Into a small library.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do most of the books concern?

2. What is the result of the dangerous bedrooms?

3. What inside the wall make Mallory angry?

4. What was the only piece of furniture in the dining room?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

6. What do the Grace children tell Ms. Black when they meet?

7. 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?

8. What does the poem that Jared found contain and what does he hear as he is thinking about it?

9. What does Jared recall about the events in his life since his parents' divorce and what does his mother suggest to him about their new home?

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

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