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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 does Mr. Pluto's gesture suggest to Thomas?
(a) That he is a nice person.
(b) That he is color blind.
(c) That he wants them to buy the house.
(d) That Mr. Pluto wants them to leave soon.

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

3. What is the weather when the Small family arrives at the house in Chapter 3?
(a) It is night time.
(b) It is raining.
(c) It is snowing.
(d) It is sunny.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thomas do while lying down?

2. Where was Dies Drear originally from?

3. What is Thomas'' father's job?

4. Why isn't Thomas worried about the rumors about the house?

5. Where does Thomas go after getting up in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who do they see when Thomas accompanies his father outside?

2. What does Thomas find in the kitchen?

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

4. What did Dies Drear give to others according to Chapter 2?

5. What name was Dies Drear also known by?

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

7. What does Thomas notice about Mr. Small at the end of Chapter 7?

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

9. Why did Thomas send the people that arrived away?

10. Where does Thomas lay down?

(see the answer keys)

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