In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories

Each time the boy saw the men's long teeth, he ---.

• cried

• froze

• jumped

• ran

What did Alfred keep asking Jenny about the green ribbon?

• when she would take it off

• if he could have it

• why she wore it

• who had given it to her

When the man came for his sweater, what did the woman say about Jim?

• He was too ill to leave his bed.

• He never lived at that house.

• He had disappeared yesterday.

• He had died almost a year ago.

What was Ruth looking for before she went to sleep?

• her teddy bear

• a pirate's map

• a pirate's ghost

• golden treasures

The poem asked if John's bones would be ---.

• lonely

• scary

• chilly

• happy

A woman saw three corpses carried into a graveyard. Corpses are ---.

• large shovels

• covered boxes

• straight chairs

• dead bodies

Late one night, the man saw a boy standing in the rain by the cemetery. A cemetery is a ---.

• public library

• large church

• place where bodies are buried

• place where people have picnics

The man found his sweater lying across Jim's grave. A sweater can be described as a ---.

• knitted top

• private book

• bed covering

• flower bunch

The thought of a pirate haunting her room scared Ruth a little. What is another word for scared?

• amused

• angered

• frightened

• excited

The man with the three-inch teeth grinned at the boy. Grinned means the same as ---.

• frowned slightly

• laughed happily

• shouted loudly

• smiled widely