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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Sarah's nickname?
(a) Pesty.
(b) Betsy.
(c) Smally.
(d) Tiny.

2. What is the first thing the boy and the girl ask Thomas?
(a) Where his parents are.
(b) What his name is.
(c) How old he is.
(d) Why he is at the house.

3. What is Thomas frightened by in the tunnel?
(a) Goolish sounds.
(b) Rats.
(c) A sound like heavy breathing.
(d) Spiders.

4. How does Thomas enter the tunnel?
(a) Carefully.
(b) He runs in.
(c) He goes in backward.
(d) He falls in the hole.

5. What does Thomas' father feel about the triangles?
(a) He is amused.
(b) He is concerned.
(c) He is scared.
(d) He is not concerned.

6. Where is the tunnel hiding?
(a) In front of the stables.
(b) Below the bathroom.
(c) Behind the office.
(d) Behind the front porch steps.

7. How does Thomas exit the tunnel?
(a) By moving a wall.
(b) The way he entered it.
(c) Using a ladder.
(d) By the trap door.

8. How is Thomas' father looking at Mr Pluto?
(a) Nicely.
(b) Harshy.
(c) Oddly.
(d) With fear.

9. What is the boy's name?
(a) Mark Richards.
(b) Mac Darrow.
(c) Richard Emmar.
(d) Robert Darrow.

10. What does Thomas break at the start of Chapter 7?
(a) The kitchen door.
(b) The back door.
(c) The front door.
(d) The living room door.

11. How does the intruder enter the house?
(a) By the kitchen tunnel.
(b) Using a crowbar.
(c) Through a mirror.
(d) By the back door.

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

13. What does Thomas' mother prepare for breakfast?
(a) Bacon and eggs.
(b) Hoecakes.
(c) Pancakes.
(d) Crepes.

14. Who is a little frightened by the house?
(a) Thomas' mother.
(b) Thomas' siblings.
(c) Thomas.
(d) Thomas' father.

15. Who is riding with Mr. Pluto to church?
(a) Mac.
(b) A cloaked figure.
(c) Pesty.
(d) He rides alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thomas find offensive?

2. Where does Thomas burst through at the end of Chapter 6?

3. How does Thomas describe the boy who arrives after the young girl?

4. Why does Thomas ask the boy and the girl to leave?

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

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