All The Lovely Bad Ones

Reading Check questions are designed for in-class review on key plot points or for quick verbal or written assessments. Multiple Choice and Short Answer Quizzes create ideal summative assessments, and collectively function to convey a sense of the work’s tone and themes.

Chapters 1-5

Reading Check

1. Who picks up Travis and Corey at the airport?

2. What is the name of the high schooler who works at the inn as a waitress and maid?

3. What is the name of the guest in Chapter 3 who gets irritated at the people looking for ghosts?

4. In Chapter 4, what do the bikers guess might have made the noises they heard the night before?

5. What special abilities does Eleanor Duvall claim to have?

Multiple Choice

1. In what state are Travis and Corey spending the summer?

A) Vermont

B) Maine

C) New Hampshire

D) New York

2. What do Travis and Corey plan to do to help their grandmother get more business?

A) start a webpage for her business

B) convince her to hire a better cook

C) post fake positive review online

D) make people think the inn has ghosts

3. What do Travis and Corey go to Middlebury to buy, besides Halloween decorations?

A) makeup

B) candy

C) books about ghosts

D) bathing suits

4. In Chapter 4, what does Grandmother say probably made the noise everyone heard on the previous night?

A) a lynx

B) a peacock

C) a fisher cat

D) an owl

5. What do the small square stones that Corey and Travis find on their way back to the inn have carved into them?

A) pictures

B) names

C) numbers

D) shapes

Short-Answer Response

Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. What is the name of the business Travis and Corey’s grandmother runs, and why are the children so interested in it?

2. What lie does Corey tell Mr. and Mrs. Jennings?

3. What are Corey and Travis doing when their grandmother checks on them in the middle of the night?

4. In Chapter 4, what makes Grandmother suspicious of Corey and Travis?

5. In Chapter 5, what creepy feeling does Travis keep getting?

Chapters 6-10

Reading Check

1. What unusual kind of car does Chester Coakley drive?

2. What unexpected noise do Travis and Corey hear while they are arguing in Chapter 7?

3. With what does Grandmother threaten Chester and Miss Duval in Chapter 8?

4. What does a ghost pour over Mrs. Brewster at lunchtime?

5. What do Corey and Travis find out that Fox Hill used to be?

Multiple Choice

1. Who thinks that Travis and Corey are responsible for waking up the inn’s ghosts?

A) Chester Coakley

B) Tracy

C) Mrs. Brewster

D) Mrs. Jennings

2. What evidence of a haunting do the ghost hunters bring to the kitchen to show Grandmother?

A) the apples from outside Corey’s window

B) an audio recording of giggling

C) a photograph of a disembodied head

D) a video of a figure in a long dress

3. What does Grandmother decide to do about the frightening events occurring at the inn?

A) call the police

B) call Corey and Travis’s parents

C) send the children back home

D) pretend that nothing is happening

4. What do Travis and Corey overhear Mrs. Brewster telling the stones?

A) that they are ruining the peace of Fox Hill’s nice new owner

B) that Travis and Corey are bad but do not deserve to be punished

C) that she will call the ghost hunters back if they do not behave

D) that their pranks are making Mr. Brewster very angry

5. What name is used for the group of child ghosts at Fox Hill?

A) the shadow children

B) Miss Ada’s boys

C) the Hill haunts

D) the children of sorrow

Short-Answer Response

Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. What does Travis confess to Chester and Miss Duval, and what is their response?

2. What does Corey accuse Travis of having done to bother her while she was in her room?

3. Where does Travis spend the night in Chapter 8, and what does he find when he goes back to his bedroom in the morning?

4. What does Tracy threaten to do in Chapter 9, and how does Grandmother persuade her to change her mind?

5. What connection between Ada Jaggs and her brother and the ghosts do Corey and Travis learn about?

Chapters 11-15

Reading Check

1. What device do the ghosts use to show Corey and Travis a scene from the past?

2. From what do Caleb’s parents and baby sister die?

3. Which one of Miss Ada’s employees did the ghost children scare from the farm?

4. What do Caleb and Seth tell Travis and Corey will help the ghost children go back to sleep?

5. What extra task do the ghost children give Grandmother, Travis, and Corey in Chapter 15?

Multiple Choice

1. In Chapter 11, what does Caleb do that makes Miss Ada so angry?

A) He steals some food.

B) He hits another child.

C) He talks back to her.

D) He breaks a drinking glass.

2. Why does Miss Ada have the children locked outside in the cold?

A) They will not tell her with whom they shared their stolen food.

B) They try to read her secret account book.

C) They sneak into the women’s sleeping quarters to see their mothers.

D) They try to tell the county sheriff about what is happening at the farm.

3. When Travis and Corey are in town with Grandmother, in what store does the shopkeeper talk to them about the ghosts?

A) the candle store

B) the hardware store

C)  the bakery

D)  the bookstore

4. What does Miss Ada’s headstone say on it?

A) WICKEDNESS BEGINS WHEN WE LISTEN TO THE WICKED.

B) WICKEDNESS IS EASIER THAN VIRTUE, BUT NOT BETTER.

C) A WICKED HEART IS ITS OWN REWARD.

D) THE WICKED HEART IS BETTER THAN THE FOOLISH.

5. To which living character does Seth turn out to be distantly related?

A) Mrs. Brewster

B) Tracy

C) Miss Duval

D) Mrs. Jennings

Short-Answer Response

Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. After Miss Ada separates Caleb from his parents, where does she put Caleb in order to punish him?

2. What information is in Miss Ada’s secret account book?

3. At the end of Chapter 13, what new rule does Grandmother make for Travis and Corey?

4. Why do the ghost children tell Corey and Travis to look beneath the floorboards of the room Miss Ada used to live in?

5. How do the ghost children finally manage to convince Grandmother that they are real?

Chapters 16-20

Reading Check

1. Where does Caleb suggest Miss Ada’s book might be?

2. What do the children find in the iron box?

3. At the end of Chapter 18, who appears in Travis’s room?

4. Who is the frightening figure who appears at the end of Chapter 19?

5. Who returns to the inn in Chapter 20?

Multiple Choice

1. What do the ghost children suspect Mr. Jaggs of doing after his sister’s death?

A) moving the children’s grave markers

B) running away to avoid the police

C) burning the children’s possessions

D) hiding Miss Ada’s account book

2. Who tells Grandmother that Chester and Miss Duvall are frauds?

A) Travis

B) Seth

C) Ira

D) Caleb

3. From whose family does the head archivist at the historical society say she is descended?

A) Miss Ada’s

B) Caleb’s

C) Ira’s

D) Seth’s

4. What does Miss Ada almost convince Travis to do?

A) stab Corey

B) hang himself

C) burn the account book

D) set the inn on fire

5. What does Ira give Grandmother?

A) gold coins

B) a picture of his mother

C) an antique necklace

D) a silver key

Short-Answer Response

Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. What do Travis and Corey not want to do in Chapter 16 because it is too scary?

2. Why does Ira say that most exorcisms do not work?

3. Because paying for 67 headstones will be very expensive, what compromise do Corey and Travis offer?

4. When Miss Ada possesses Travis, what does she show him?

5. Why do the ghost children say they will wait until nighttime to leave the inn?