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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 do Simon and Mallory exchange?
(a) Books.
(b) Descriptions.
(c) A strange glance.
(d) Journals.

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

3. Where does Jared find a book called Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide?
(a) In the large hole in the tree he climbs.
(b) In an unused room in the library in town.
(c) In the abandoned building in town.
(d) In a trunk in the attic.

4. What is missing from the house?
(a) Simon's pet mice.
(b) The secret books.
(c) Mallory's fencing blade.
(d) The gold coins in the office.

5. What does Simon believe about Jared?
(a) That he is guilty but has a good reason.
(b) That he is not guilty.
(c) Simon has not opinion yet about Jared's actions.
(d) That he is the worse brother one could have.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jared take outside of the house?

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

3. What does Jared decide to do for the creature bothering them?

4. What is Jared's response to Mallory's threats?

5. What is Jared talking about as Simon is wanting to sleep?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Jared ultimately find in the trunk?

4. What is the attic like?

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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