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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Emma create a distraction in the Priest's Hole?
(a) By screaming.
(b) By pointing towards the opposite direction for the search for Jacob.
(c) By yelling "Fire."
(d) By causing a fire.

4. What business(es) does Jacob's family own?
(a) Gas stations.
(b) Retail store.
(c) Construction company.
(d) Drug stores.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jacob learn about "the Home" when he arrives on the island?

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

3. What is something Uncle Oggie tells Jacob about the Home?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Emma do to ensure Jacob's escape from the village people in Chapter 5?

2. Where is Jacob when his grandfather calls him in Chapter 1 and what does the grandfather want?

3. What motivates Jacob to run into the bog near the house in Chapter 5?

4. What does Jacob tell his father about his day in Chapter 3, and what is Jacob's father's response?

5. Where do Ricky and Jacob find Abe and what does Abe tell Jacob?

6. What does Jacob first find during the exploration of the abandoned Home in Chapter 5?

7. What does Jacob find inside the old trunk?

8. What does Jacob watch out of the window of the Home in Chapter 6?

9. What photographs does Abe show Jacob, and what does Jacob come to believe about Abe's stories?

10. How do Jacob's parents try to calm Jacob after his grandfather’s death and what does he think of the effort?

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