Water for Elephants | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Prologue

1. Who is Jacob, the character introduced in the prologue?

A circus workman.

2. Where is Jacob at the beginning of his circus memories?

In the cookhouse of a circus.

3. What song does Jacob hear being played as the stampede begins?

Stars and Stripes Forever

4. What is Jacob doing just before the stampede begins?

Eating

5. Where does Jacob go when he hears the music change?

Jacob rushes to the big top

6. What is Jacob told as he runs toward the big top?

Jacob is told the animals are stampeding

7. Who is Marlena, the woman Jacob is looking for in the prologue?

Jacob's girlfriend

8. Where does Jacob find Marlena?

In the menagerie tent

9. Who is Marlena talking to when Jacob finds her?

August

10. Who is August, the man Marlena is speaking to in the prologue?

Marlena's husband

11. What does...
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