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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 do once he is outside with what he takes?
(a) Burns the entire thing.
(b) Takes the remains of a weird nest out and leaves it in the yard.
(c) Smashes the box with a hammer.
(d) Buries the sack.

2. What shocks Helen Grace about her conversation with Jared?
(a) That he found out about the word Spiderwick in the attic.
(b) That Jared believes his great-great grandfather is still alive.
(c) That Jared thinks his mom is hiding something from them.
(d) That Jared asks some very mature questions for his age.

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

4. What does Simon believe about Jared?
(a) That he is the worse brother one could have.
(b) That he is not guilty.
(c) That he is guilty but has a good reason.
(d) Simon has not opinion yet about Jared's actions.

5. Where is there a small, spiral staircase?
(a) In the middle of the attic room.
(b) Standing in the middle of the forrest.
(c) In an abandoned building in town.
(d) Near the north wall of the basement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jared suggest about a poem?

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

3. What is one reason might the creature be bothering Mallory?

4. What is Jared talking about as Simon is wanting to sleep?

5. Where does Jared decide to go?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jared's mother feel about him going to the attic?

2. What does Simon speculate to Jared about Mallory's situation and what does Jared say to him? How does Simon react to Jared's suggestion?

3. What does Ms. Grace think about Mallory's situation?

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

5. What is the attic like?

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

7. What is Jared talking about to Simon when Simon wants to go to sleep?

8. What does Jared ask Mallory about her hair and what are Mallory's private doubts?

9. What does Simon look at that Jared shows him and what does he wonder?

10. How does Jared feel about the trunk in the attic and what does he do with the trunk? What does he find?

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