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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 suspect?
(a) That Jared is acting out because his father left them.
(b) That Mallory is setting up Jared.
(c) That Jared is resonsible for the mess in the kitchen.
(d) That Jared is acting out because Mallory gets extra privileges.

2. What does Jared's mother have him do?
(a) Start in immediately on his home study lessons.
(b) Clean the woodshed.
(c) Go look at the sycamore tree in the front yard.
(d) Go look at the kitchen.

3. How is Jared's mother as she wakes him in the morning?
(a) Confused.
(b) Cheerful.
(c) Angry.
(d) Upset.

4. Who does Simon suspect in the Mallory episode?
(a) Jared.
(b) A poltergeist.
(c) Mallory did it to herself for attention.
(d) The squirrel creature.

5. What does Mallory ask Jared about her hair?
(a) If Jared thinks a faerie did it.
(b) If Jared did it.
(c) If Jared thinks Mallory did it herself as a joke.
(d) If Jared thinks Simon did it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Jared remember is in a psych hospital?

2. What does Jared hear in the morning?

3. What does Simon believe about Jared?

4. What does Simon say Jared better do at night?

5. What does Mallory think about what is on the floor?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jared decide to go downstairs and what does he do in the kitchen?

2. What does Jared decide to do to calm the boggart and what does he carry into the house? What is his mother's reaction to Jared's load?

3. What do Simon and Mallory think about her situation?

4. What does Jared point out in the kitchen and what happens to his evidence?

5. What is the attic like?

6. What phrase is Jared thinking about in the poem, and where does he decide to go?

7. What is Jared doing that night that surprises Simon, what is Simon doing and what is Jared thinking about?

8. What is the most upsetting thing about the problems downstairs and what does Jared's mother accuse him of concerning Simon's mice?

9. What does Jared ultimately find in the trunk?

10. What does Jared do with the black plastic garbage bag and what does he see inside it?

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