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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Jacob sleep the first night at the inn?
(a) He is totally unable to sleep.
(b) Still has horrible nightmares.
(c) Well for the first time in months.
(d) Fitfully but with no nightmares.

2. What does Jacob do when he arrives back at the Home in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) Leaves a note on the front door.
(b) Hides outside and watches the home.
(c) Searches the first floor.
(d) Searches the attic.

3. What do Ricky and Jacob find in the woods as they follow a trail behind Jacob's grandfather's house?
(a) A neighbor's dead body.
(b) Jacob's grandfather's dead dog.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Jacob's grandfather, bloody and semi-conscious.

4. What do Jacob, Emma, and Millard do after the cart leaves the village boundary?
(a) Emma and Jacob stay with the cart while Millard goes in a separate direction.
(b) Leave the cart and continue on foot.
(c) Hide the cart behind a barn and hide in the woods.
(d) Make the horse start to trot faster.

5. What are ymbrynes?
(a) Mostly men with a variety of abilities and responsibilities.
(b) Forms of wood nymphs.
(c) Types of wights.
(d) Mostly women with a variety of abilities and responsibilities.

6. What does Millard explain to Jacob about the children?
(a) They are all have special abilities.
(b) A few of them are peculiar.
(c) They are all getting away from abuse.
(d) They are all agnostic.

7. Who accuses Jacob of being a wight?
(a) An elderly woman.
(b) A girl he encounters in an alley.
(c) The landlord at the Priest's Hole.
(d) A man at a fruit stand.

8. Where does Emma shove Jacob while they are in the Priest's Hole?
(a) Down the hole.
(b) Out the back door.
(c) Into the kitchen.
(d) Up the stairs.

9. What does Milliard look at as he is planning the escape of Emma, Jacob, and himself?
(a) A book.
(b) The sky.
(c) His watch.
(d) A pendant.

10. What is the cause of the recent change Jacob discusses?
(a) His mother's death.
(b) A particular event related to his grandfather.
(c) His brother's joining the military.
(d) His sister being kidnapped.

11. Who agrees to take Jacob to the Home?
(a) The local drunk.
(b) Dylan.
(c) The museum curator.
(d) The police officer.

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

13. How does Abe take it when Jacob says he no longer believes Abe's stories?
(a) Abe becomes despondent.
(b) Abe responds calmly.
(c) Abe is indifferent.
(d) Abe becomes angry.

14. What upsets Jacob when he opens what he found in the Home in Chapter 5?
(a) It is empty.
(b) There is a picture of his mother.
(c) There is a picture of Dr. Golan.
(d) There is a picture of a peregrine falcon.

15. What is another photograph Abe shows Jacob in the Prologue?
(a) A boy who can find water with his finger.
(b) A boy who can become invisible.
(c) A girl who can stretch her body over long distances.
(d) A boy who can talk to animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the month on the calendar in the hut in Chapter 5?

2. Who does Jacob recognize at the Home?

3. Who is Ricky?

4. Why does Abe go to a special school when he is young?

5. Why does Jacob think people are staring at him when he emerges from the tunnel in Chapter 5?

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