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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 see on the floor?
(a) A dead rat.
(b) Tracks made by the elf.
(c) Tracks made by the boggart.
(d) A message written in the flour.

2. What is Jared talking about as Simon is wanting to sleep?
(a) A mystical creature called a brownie.
(b) Another model airplane he wants to buy.
(c) If Mallory is mad at Jared.
(d) If their mom is mad at Jared.

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

4. What does Jared do once he is outside with what he takes?
(a) Smashes the box with a hammer.
(b) Buries the sack.
(c) Takes the remains of a weird nest out and leaves it in the yard.
(d) Burns the entire thing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jared decide to go?

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

3. What does Jared's mom recall about Jared's school days?

4. What is the significance of the word Spiderwick?

5. What is Helen Grace's biggest concern about Jared's activities that morning?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

5. What does Jared ultimately find in the trunk?

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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