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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 is Thomas'' father's job?
(a) He is a lawyer.
(b) He is a history professor.
(c) He is a doctor.
(d) He is a blacksmith.

2. What does Thomas find offensive?
(a) The condition of the stables.
(b) The smell of the toilet.
(c) Mr. Pluto's furniture arrangement.
(d) The color scheme of the house.

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

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

5. Who died with the man who build the house?
(a) Two slaves.
(b) his wife.
(c) A neighbor.
(d) Two of his sons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thomas' father think the sound really was?

2. What was Dies Drear's nickname?

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

4. What country did Dies Drear send his guest to?

5. What does Thomas tell his father about the tunnel at the start of Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens while the Small family sleeps?

2. What was considered a crime?

3. Why does Thomas find the furniture arrangement offensive?

4. What does Thomas find when he wakes in the beginning of Chapter 9?

5. Why does Thomas dislike his room according to Chapter 8?

6. How is the house of Dies Drear described at the start of Chapter 3?

7. Where does Thomas' father find Mr. Pluto in Chapter 7?

8. What do Thomas and his father discuss while eating?

9. Why is the caretaker of the house also known as Mr. Pluto?

10. What does Mr. Small do to the mechanism?

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