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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 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.

2. What is Simon losing?
(a) The fencing match.
(b) His baby fat.
(c) His voice.
(d) His nighttime privileges.

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

4. What do Brownies become when they get mad?
(a) Invisible.
(b) All puffed up.
(c) Shapparts.
(d) Boggarts.

5. Who does Helen Grace suspect is involved in the Mallory episode?
(a) The Brownies.
(b) Simon.
(c) Jared.
(d) Her uncle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Simon believe about Jared?

2. What is missing from the house?

3. What does Jared think he is dealing with as far as what attacked Mallory?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What wakes Jared in the morning, where does he run, what does he see and who else is there with him?

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

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

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

5. What phrase is Jared thinking about in the poem, and where does he decide to go?

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

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

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

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

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

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