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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the year on the calendar in the hut where Jacob is taken in Chapter 5?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1938.

2. What seems to attract most of Jacob's father's attention?
(a) A middle-aged woman he knew in childhood.
(b) Tracking down birds.
(c) The architecture.
(d) The plethora of spiders.

3. What is in the house Jacob is tricked into entering?
(a) Piles of sheep dung.
(b) Thousands of bats.
(c) A human skeleton.
(d) A wolverine.

4. Of what do some of the patrons at the Priest's Hole accuse Jacob?
(a) Of trying to steal food.
(b) Of trying to intimidate the landlord.
(c) Of being a German spy.
(d) Of lying.

5. Where do Jacob and his father stay on the island?
(a) The Priest's Hole Inn.
(b) The Spindrift.
(c) The Do Drop Inn.
(d) The Porpoise Inn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Ricky?

2. What does Jacob say has recently changed in the novel’s Prologue?

3. What does Jacob become more curious about as he gets older?

4. What is Jacob's job in his family's business?

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

(see the answer key)

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