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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 have him do?
(a) Start in immediately on his home study lessons.
(b) Clean the woodshed.
(c) Go look at the kitchen.
(d) Go look at the sycamore tree in the front yard.

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

3. In general, what is the supposed nature of Brownies?
(a) Helpful.
(b) Secretive.
(c) Excited.
(d) Melancholy.

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

5. What does Simon say Jared better do at night?
(a) Paint his face and hands black.
(b) Stay in their bedroom.
(c) Wear dark clothing.
(d) Sleep.

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprises Simon about Jared and the book Jared found?

2. What does Jared suggest about a poem?

3. Who does Jared remember is in a psych hospital?

4. What shocks Helen Grace about her conversation with Jared?

5. What does Mallory ask Jared about her hair?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

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

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

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

6. What does Jared think about as to his situation and his aunt Lucinda?

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

8. What does Jared ask Mallory about her hair and what are Mallory's private doubts?

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

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

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