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

2. What collection does Jacob's grandfather keep in the garage?
(a) Gardening tools.
(b) Guns and weapons.
(c) Stamps.
(d) Coins.

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

4. How do Jacob and his father get to the island?
(a) They take a helicopter.
(b) They hire a private boat.
(c) They take a ferry.
(d) They sail in their boat.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the trunk end up in the basement?

2. How is Ricky described?

3. Who has joined Emma when Jacob wakes from a faint in Chapter 5?

4. Why does Jacob not leave his home after the death of his grandfather?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jacob convince his parents that he should do to help him recover from Abe's death?

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

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

4. How does Jacob get to his grandfather's house in Chapter 1, and what does he see along the way?

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

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

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

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

9. Why does Jacob run out of the Priest's Hole in Chapter 5? Who does he encounter, and what does she do?

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

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