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

2. What does Simon admire as he and Jared are in their room that night?
(a) His butterfly collection.
(b) His arrowhead collection.
(c) His pet mice.
(d) His bone collection.

3. What is missing from the house?
(a) Simon's pet mice.
(b) The secret books.
(c) The gold coins in the office.
(d) Mallory's fencing blade.

4. Where does Jared decide to go?
(a) The basement.
(b) To the town.
(c) To climb the highest tree in the yard.
(d) The attic.

5. What does Jared find when he climbs the staircase?
(a) A trombone case.
(b) A small room.
(c) A cask.
(d) A huge bird's nest.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what possible relative does Jared ask?

2. Who does Simon suspect in the Mallory episode?

3. About what phrase in the poem does Jared wonder?

4. What does Simon believe about Jared?

5. About what does Jared think concerning mystical creatures?

Short Essay Questions

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

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. How does Mrs. Grace feel when she wakes up Jared in the morning and what does she show him?

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

5. What wakes Jared in the morning, where does he run, what does he see and who else is there with him?

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

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

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

10. 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?

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