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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. What does Jacob become more curious about as he gets older?
(a) Why his mother will not speak to Abe.
(b) The stories his grandfather tells him.
(c) Why his father will not speak to Abe.
(d) The reason is mother is in an insane asylum.

2. What does Jacob sense in one of the rooms he enters in the Home?
(a) That it belonged to Emma.
(b) A presence of some sort of evil.
(c) It was once his grandfather's room.
(d) A presence of some sort of good.

3. How does Milliard explain the situation of the peculiars in Chapter 5?
(a) Miss Peregrine is meeting them near there.
(b) They are going to be the only survivors of the German bombing.
(c) They must get off the island immediately.
(d) They are in a loop.

4. According to Jacob's father, what were the monsters to which Abe refers?
(a) A gang of boys who were wild on the streets of Belgrade during WWII.
(b) A cruel orphanage manager.
(c) Nazi soldiers.
(d) A gang of boys who were wild on the streets of Prague during WWII.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What shocks Jacob when he is looking at some papers from the trunk in Chapter 5?

2. What business(es) does Jacob's family own?

3. What does the word “peregrine” refer to?

4. How is Ricky described?

5. What is another photograph Abe shows Jacob in the Prologue?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Jacob say about his grandfather and a special school in the Prologue?

3. What do Jacob's parents do after the police artist ploy does not seem to help Jacob?

4. What is different about the island when Jacob emerges from the tunnel in Chapter 5?

5. How does Jacob open the locked trunk he finds in Chapter 5?

6. Who is with Jacob when he comes to from his faint in Chapter 5 and what do they tell him?

7. How does Jacob's father explain Abe's stories?

8. Describe Jacob's conversation with Miss Peregrine when they meet in Chapter 6.

9. What does Jacob say about how his life has changed in the Prologue?

10. How is the last leg of the journey to Cairnholm accomplished, and what do Jacob and his father see in the waters along the way?

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