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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 shocks Jacob when he is looking at some papers from the trunk in Chapter 5?
(a) The girl in on photo is looking down at him.
(b) There is a picture of his mother, who shouldn't have been born yet.
(c) There is a picture of his father, who shouldn't have been born yet.
(d) There is a picture of him, who shouldn't have been born yet.

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

3. How is Ricky described?
(a) Geek.
(b) Nerd.
(c) Punk rocker.
(d) Weird.

4. What is coming out of the hands of a young girl in a photograph Jacob finds?
(a) Water.
(b) Claws.
(c) Light.
(d) Razor-like protuberances.

5. What is something Uncle Oggie tells Jacob about the Home?
(a) The Home is bombed early in WWII.
(b) The previous director of the Home lives in Scotland.
(c) The Home was moved three times.
(d) The former residents of the Home live mostly in England.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where had Abe escaped the Nazis?

2. What does Jacob sense in one of the rooms he enters in the Home?

3. Where do Jacob and his father stay on the island?

4. What happens to Jacob's grandfather as he ages?

5. How does Abe take it when Jacob says he no longer believes Abe's stories?

(see the answer key)

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