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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 mom ask him to find?
(a) A way to seal the basement window.
(b) A way to seal the attic hole.
(c) A way to join the little league team in that town.
(d) A constructive way to deal with his anger.

2. What does Jared think may be in a trunk he finds?
(a) A body.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Newspapers.

3. 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.

4. Where is Mallory bruised?
(a) She is not bruised.
(b) On her arm.
(c) On her stomach.
(d) On her right leg.

5. What does Jared hear in the morning?
(a) Mallory making breakfast.
(b) Mallory screaming.
(c) Absolute silence.
(d) Mallory and Simon yelling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jared take outside of the house?

2. What does the book describe?

3. What is the significance of the word Spiderwick?

4. What does Jared think is possible about the book?

5. How is the children's mother acting as she serves the meal?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Jared answer the accusations, what does Simon believe and what does Jared's mother do to Jared?

4. What does Jared ask their mother about Arthur and what is her reply?

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

6. 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?

7. 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?

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

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

10. What does Jared think might be in the wall?

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