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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 intensifies Helen Grace's concerns about Jared's morning activities?
(a) That he did not do his home study lesson plans before going out.
(b) Her thoughts about his possible culpability concerning Mallory's hair and bruises.
(c) Jared is not as atheletic as Mallory or Simon and is too clumsy to climb high trees.
(d) Jared has epilepsy and could have an attack while climbing.

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

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

4. Why is Simon crying?
(a) His cat is missing.
(b) He has bruises on his arm.
(c) He tripped down the stairs and twisted his ankle.
(d) Mallory beat him again in fencing.

5. What does Mallory think about what is on the floor?
(a) She says they are not tracks.
(b) That the dead rat made the tracks before it died.
(c) That Jared made the tracks.
(d) That a mouse made the tracks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What enrages Helen about what Simon says?

2. What does Mallory call the book Jared finds?

3. How is Jared's mother as she wakes him in the morning?

4. What is splashed on the walls?

5. What does Jared have to do before he can finish his tracking efforts?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the attic like?

6. What does Jared ultimately find in the trunk?

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

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

9. What does Jared do with the black plastic garbage bag and what does he see inside it?

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

(see the answer keys)

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