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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Jacob's grandfather as he ages?
(a) His arthritis worsens.
(b) His dementia worsens.
(c) He becomes more and more withdrawn.
(d) He becomes more and more volatile.

2. What time do Jacob and the children go to when the bomb explodes?
(a) 1939.
(b) A few moments before the end of September 20.
(c) A few moments before the end of September 2.
(d) 1937.

3. What state is Jacob's father in frequently?
(a) Excited.
(b) Distracted.
(c) Drunken.
(d) Aloof.

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

5. What is withered and crumbly on the table in Chapter 8?
(a) The apple.
(b) The papers the children had given him.
(c) The grapes he had put in his pocket from lunch at the Home.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jacob sleep the first night at the inn?

2. What are segments of time and space existing outside the normal lines referred to in the novel?

3. What has not been reset as it was supposed to be in Chapter 10?

4. For what does Jacob use his cell phone in Chapter 5?

5. What do Jacob's parents and the police not believe?

(see the answer key)

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