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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jacob say has recently changed in the novel’s Prologue?
(a) His brother.
(b) His life.
(c) His sister.
(d) His father.

2. From where had Abe escaped the Nazis?
(a) Holland.
(b) Hungary.
(c) France.
(d) Poland.

3. What does Jacob learn about "the Home" when he arrives on the island?
(a) It is only about a mile from their inn.
(b) It is right next door to their inn.
(c) No one has ever heard of it.
(d) It is abandoned, far away, and dangerous.

4. Why does Jacob and Ricky's friendship end?
(a) Ricky thinks Jacob set up his grandfather.
(b) Jacob thinks Ricky ran out on him.
(c) Jacob thinks Ricky did not hurry fast enough to get help.
(d) Ricky does not believe Jacob's account of what he saw when holding his dying grandfather.

5. What does Jacob sense in one of the rooms he enters in the Home?
(a) It was once his grandfather's room.
(b) That it belonged to Emma.
(c) A presence of some sort of evil.
(d) A presence of some sort of good.

Short Answer Questions

1. What business(es) does Jacob's family own?

2. How is Jacob's mother described?

3. What is coming out of the hands of a young girl in a photograph Jacob finds?

4. Where does Jacob's grandfather tell Jacob to go in Chapter 1?

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

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