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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 has strange words from newspaper clippings?
(a) The ice around the tadpoles.
(b) The weird nest the children found.
(c) The flour on the floor of the kitchen.
(d) The back pages of the Field Guide.

2. What do Simon and Mallory exchange?
(a) Descriptions.
(b) A strange glance.
(c) Journals.
(d) Books.

3. Where does Simon go after leaving Mallory's bedroom?
(a) To the basement to find a knife.
(b) Outside to look for crickets.
(c) To the his bedroom to look for the poem.
(d) Outside to go riding.

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

5. Who does Jared remember is in a psych hospital?
(a) His uncle.
(b) His great-aunt Lucinda.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) His great-grandfather.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jared find when he climbs the staircase?

2. Who does Simon suspect in the Mallory episode?

3. What does Jared do once he is outside with what he takes?

4. What does Simon admire as he and Jared are in their room that night?

5. What does the field guide suggest ways to track?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Jared's mother say to him about his anger?

8. 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?

9. What is the attic like?

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

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