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

2. What enrages Helen about what Simon says?
(a) That he sides with his brother even though his brother has killed Simon's pets.
(b) That Simon thinks Jared has a good reason for what he did.
(c) That he is talking nonsense.
(d) That Simon is siding with Mallory as usual.

3. What does Jared suggest about a poem?
(a) It was planted intentionally.
(b) It was written by their great-uncle.
(c) It is a red herring.
(d) It might provide a clue as to what happened to Mallory.

4. What does the book describe?
(a) Birds and animals of the area.
(b) How to survive in the wilderness.
(c) Faeries and mystical creatures.
(d) How to survive a ghost haunting.

5. What is the significance of the word Spiderwick?
(a) Helen Grace does not know the word.
(b) It is great-aunt Lucinda's maiden name.
(c) It is the name of the old family estate about 70 miles from there.
(d) It is the name of a cave where Helen Grace and her brother Jared used to play.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Brownies become when they get mad?

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

3. Why is Simon crying?

4. What does Jared spread on the floor of the kitchen?

5. About what does Jared think concerning mystical creatures?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is the attic like?

8. 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?

9. 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?

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

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