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

2. What does Jared think will help the creature to be nicer?
(a) Leaving it the Field Guide.
(b) The humans moving.
(c) Leaving it something everyday.
(d) Giving it a new house.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Simon say Jared better do at night?

2. What does Mallory doubt?

3. What do Brownies become when they get mad?

4. What are Mallory and Simon doing when Jared next sees them?

5. About what phrase in the poem does Jared wonder?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

5. 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?

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

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

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

9. What do Simon and Mallory think about her situation?

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

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