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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. Where is there a small, spiral staircase?
(a) Near the north wall of the basement.
(b) In an abandoned building in town.
(c) Standing in the middle of the forrest.
(d) In the middle of the attic room.

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

3. What does Jared think is possible about the book?
(a) It is the only copy in existence.
(b) It is one of just a few of its kind.
(c) It was written by his great-great grandfather.
(d) It is not meant to be a serious treatise.

4. What does Jared spread on the floor of the kitchen?
(a) Water.
(b) Bread crumbs.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Flour.

5. What happened to the bowl Jared had set out?
(a) It has disappeared.
(b) It is in the oven.
(c) It is in the front yard.
(d) It is broken.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the picture in Jared's book that looks like an old man with a heavy coat and scarf?

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

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

4. What is in the freezer?

5. What does a note say that the children find?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is the attic like?

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

9. What does Jared ultimately find in the trunk?

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

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