Lucinda's Secret Chapters 1-3

1. Thimbletack had done each of the following pranks except ______.
a) cut Jared's eyelashes
b) put glue on Jared's toothpaste
c) filled Jared's shoes with mud
d) urinated on Jared's pillow

2. The water from the tap tasted ___________.
a) salty
b) muddy
c) like fire
d) oily

3. Simon fixed ___________ for Bryon, the griffin to eat.
a) steak and potatoes
b) cabbage and broccoli
c) chicken and worms
d) hamburger meat and cereal

4. Aunt Lucinda was living ____________.
a) in an asylum
b) with her sister
c) in an old folks home
d) with Melvina

5. Luncinda gave the Grace children ______________ for Thimbletack.
a) Sprite vegetables that looked like red peas
b) directions for finding the Guide
c) a set of toy soldiers
d) a bag full of silvery jacks, stones, and clay marbles

6. What happened to Arthur Spiderwick?
a) He went out for a walk one day and never came back.
b) He died when Lucinda was a small girl.
c) He fell in love and moved to Chicago to get married

7. After Lucinda ate the small red fruit, _______________.
a) she could see the sprites without the seeing stone
b) regular food tasted like sawdust and ashes
c) she fell into a deep sleep like Sleeping Beauty

8. Melivina put Lucinda into the hospital because she thought _____________.
a) Lucinda was too old to take care of herself
b) Lucinda fell and broke her hip
c) Lucinda was cutting herself
d) Lucinda was talking crazily

9. When Jared took the Field Guide out of his backpack, ______________-.
a) the sprites flew off with it
b) it was really a cookbook
c) the goblins came through the window
d) the hospital shook

10. Which of the following contains a cause-effect relationship?
a) Aunt Lucy looked at him with dawning horror.
b) Her hands were shaking, even as she clasped them in her lap.
c) "Of a fashion," she said with a strange smile.
d) 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?
a) onomatopoeia
b) simile
c) metaphor
d) repetition

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

This sentence implies.

a) Lucinda was not hungry.
b) The cookies on the plate looked like little bugs.
c) Lucinda thought the cookies did not look appetizing.
d) The cookies were stale.



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1. (b)
2. (c)
3. (d)
4. (a)
5. (d)
6. (a)
7. (b)
8. (c)
9. (b)
10. (d)
11. (b)
12. (c)