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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the network that helped escaped slaves going north in Chapter 1?
(a) The Low Railroad.
(b) Underground Highway.
(c) The High Highway.
(d) Underground Railroad.

2. What does Thomas do in order to better see the house?
(a) He look for strange shapes on the walls.
(b) He looks at small details.
(c) He climbs the hill.
(d) He takes pictures.

3. Where is Mr. Pluto when Thomas' father arrive?
(a) In the kitchen.
(b) On the porch.
(c) In the living room.
(d) In front of the back door.

4. Why does Thomas ask the boy and the girl to leave?
(a) He thinks they are ghosts.
(b) He thinks they are dangerous.
(c) He does not like them.
(d) He wants to go in the tunnel.

5. What does Thomas wait for before leaving his bedroom?
(a) That his parents are quiet in their room.
(b) That his brothers stop crying.
(c) For the moon to be behind the clouds.
(d) That his parents turn the light off.

6. Where does the intruder put the small triangles?
(a) On the door of the occupied bedrooms.
(b) On the chairs.
(c) On the beds.
(d) On the top of the front door.

7. What does Thomas' father do to block access to the tunnel?
(a) He nails planks on the entrance.
(b) He moves a large rock in front of the entrance.
(c) He removes the mechanism.
(d) He puts an alarm in.

8. What is Thomas' father investigating?
(a) A scream by his wife.
(b) The noises Thomas made.
(c) A ghost sighting.
(d) Noises by Thomas' brothers.

9. What attracts Thomas' father's sight?
(a) Mr. Pluto's new pants.
(b) Mr. Pluto's new gloves.
(c) Mr. Pluto's new shoes.
(d) Mr. Pluto's new glasses.

10. What is the nickname of the caretaker of the house ?
(a) Mr. Hercules.
(b) Mr. Mars.
(c) Mr. Smith.
(d) Mr. Pluto.

11. What is Thomas watching at the start of Chapter 8?
(a) His father talking.
(b) His mother sewing.
(c) TV.
(d) His brothers.

12. Where is Thomas' family moving to?
(a) Florida.
(b) Ohio.
(c) San diego.
(d) Oklahoma.

13. What do Thomas' parents have a queer reaction to?
(a) The kitchen door.
(b) The front door.
(c) The living room door.
(d) The back door.

14. What does Thomas' father think the sound really was?
(a) The wind.
(b) A ghost.
(c) A prank by local children.
(d) Mr. Pluto's bellows.

15. Where does Thomas go after getting up in Chapter 6?
(a) He goes back home.
(b) He goes in the woods.
(c) He goes in an abandoned house.
(d) He goes back in the tunnel.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Thomas' father looking at Mr Pluto?

2. How long has the house been occupied on average since the death of Dies Drear?

3. Where does Thomas lay down in Chapter 6?

4. What does Thomas find offensive?

5. What was Dies Drear's nickname?

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