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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 is Jacob's job in his family's business?
(a) Cashier clerk.
(b) General site manager.
(c) Buyer.
(d) Mechanic.

2. How does Jacob sleep the first night at the inn?
(a) Well for the first time in months.
(b) Still has horrible nightmares.
(c) Fitfully but with no nightmares.
(d) He is totally unable to sleep.

3. What does Jacob's aunt give him?
(a) A book of mechanical drawings.
(b) A book of poetry.
(c) Jacob's grandfather's favorite pistol.
(d) A collection of letters from Jacob's grandfather to an unknown man.

4. What business(es) does Jacob's family own?
(a) Retail store.
(b) Gas stations.
(c) Drug stores.
(d) Construction company.

5. Who agrees to take Jacob to the Home?
(a) The museum curator.
(b) Dylan.
(c) The police officer.
(d) The local drunk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jacob do when he arrives back at the Home in the beginning of Chapter 5?

2. What is the month on the calendar in the hut in Chapter 5?

3. What does Jacob notice about one of his grandfather's neighbors?

4. According to Jacob's father, what were the monsters to which Abe refers?

5. What is the year on the calendar in the hut where Jacob is taken in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jacob tell his father about his day in Chapter 3, and what is Jacob's father's response?

2. What is different about the island when Jacob emerges from the tunnel in Chapter 5?

3. Why does Jacob run out of the Priest's Hole in Chapter 5? Who does he encounter, and what does she do?

4. What does Jacob find inside the old trunk?

5. How is the last leg of the journey to Cairnholm accomplished, and what do Jacob and his father see in the waters along the way?

6. What does Jacob say about his grandfather and a special school in the Prologue?

7. How does Jacob open the locked trunk he finds in Chapter 5?

8. What photographs does Abe show Jacob, and what does Jacob come to believe about Abe's stories?

9. What does Jacob say about how his life has changed in the Prologue?

10. What does Jacob first find during the exploration of the abandoned Home in Chapter 5?

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