Choose the correct answer for each question.

1. Thimbletack had done each of the following pranks except ______.

   1.   ?    cut Jared's eyelashes
   2.   ?    put glue on Jared's toothpaste
   3.   ?    filled Jared's shoes with mud
   4.   ?    urinated on Jared's pillow

2. The water from the tap tasted ___________.

   1.   ?    salty
   2.   ?    muddy
   3.   ?    like fire
   4.   ?    oily

3. Simon fixed ___________ for Bryon, the griffin to eat.

   1.   ?    steak and potatoes
   2.   ?    cabbage and broccoli
   3.   ?    chicken and worms
   4.   ?    hamburger meat and cereal

4. Aunt Lucinda was living ____________.

   1.   ?    in an asylum
   2.   ?    with her sister
   3.   ?    in an old folks home
   4.   ?    with Melvina

5. Luncinda gave the Grace children ______________ for Thimbletack.

   1.   ?    Sprite vegetables that looked like red peas
   2.   ?    directions for finding the Guide
   3.   ?    a set of toy soldiers
   4.   ?    a bag full of silvery jacks, stones, and clay marbles

6. What happened to Arthur Spiderwick?

   1.   ?    He went out for a walk one day and never came back.
   2.   ?    He died when Lucinda was a small girl.
   3.   ?    He fell in love and moved to Chicago to get married

7. After Lucinda ate the small red fruit, _______________.

   1.   ?    she could see the sprites without the seeing stone
   2.   ?    regular food tasted like sawdust and ashes
   3.   ?    she fell into a deep sleep like Sleeping Beauty

8. Melivina put Lucinda into the hospital because she thought _____________.

   1.   ?    Lucinda was too old to take care of herself
   2.   ?    Lucinda fell and broke her hip
   3.   ?    Lucinda was cutting herself
   4.   ?    Lucinda was talking crazily

9. When Jared took the Field Guide out of his backpack, ______________-.

   1.   ?    the sprites flew off with it
   2.   ?    it was really a cookbook
   3.   ?    the goblins came through the window
   4.   ?    the hospital shook

10. Which of the following contains a cause-effect relationship?

    1.   ?    Aunt Lucy looked at him with dawning horror.
    2.   ?    Her hands were shaking, even as she clasped them in her lap.
    3.   ?    "Of a fashion," she said with a strange smile.
    4.   ?    At the sound of the name the man scowled.

11. Read this sentence from Lucinda's Secret.
    
    One night the faeries brought me a piece of fruit - just a little thing - the size of a grape and red as a rose.
    
    Which type of figurative language is used in the sentence?

    1.   ?    onomatopoeia
    2.   ?    simile
    3.   ?    metaphor
    4.   ?    repetition

12. The old woman looked at the plate as though it were piled with cockroaches.
    
    This sentences implies.

    1.   ?    Lucinda was not hungry.
    2.   ?    The cookies on the plate looked like little bugs.
    3.   ?    Lucinda thought the cookies did not look appetizing.
    4.   ?    The cookies were stale.