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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jacob's father say about Abe that angers Jacob?

2. What replays every 24 hours?

3. What is in the house Jacob is tricked into entering?

4. What does Dr. Golan try to do for Jacob?

5. How does Abe take it when Jacob says he no longer believes Abe's stories?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jacob tell his parents, the police, and Ricky about what he saw when his grandfather died? What is their response?

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

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

4. What does Miss Peregrine say about ymbrynes?

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

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

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

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

9. What does Jacob say about how his elderly grandfather has deteriorated in Chapter 1?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jacob’s story serves as a Hero’s Journey on various levels and is comparable to other novels and series’ exploring similar themes. As with Jacob’s discovery of the Home, there are also echoes of other stories of so-called "special" young people being kept safe and hidden from the world.

1. Why do you think allegorical stories of a Hero's Journey often take place in alternative worlds? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Do you think special people or people who are very different from others need protection from exploitation or attack? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Chose two of the peculiar children in this book and explain how they might be exploited in normal "real" society and why you think this would happen. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

One of the enduring myths of the human race is that of The Hero's Journey. Jacob leaves his home, embarks on a simultaneous outer and inner journey, and emerges transformed, with a new world view and perspective.

The reason this particular point in Jacob's story is such a good place to comment on its relationship to The Hero's Journey is that his emergence from darkness into light, his "rebirth" is an example of a motif or repeated image that very often, almost inescapably, appears in Hero's Journey narratives.

1. Discuss what you see is the outer journey that Jacob undertakes. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Discuss Jacob's inner journey and how he was changed by it. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Discuss why it might be true that a Hero's Journey always involves moving from darkness into light, in the form especially of self knowledge. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

There are a number of interesting questions raised by Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Consider and discuss the following questions that Riggs most likely want readers to consider and think through carefully:

1. What does the term "author agenda" mean?

2. Name one idea/concept you think may have been a part of the Riggs's agenda. Analyze that idea throughout the book and discuss Riggs's probable agenda concerning that idea.

3. Do you think writers who have an agenda for writing should point it out in a preface?

4. How often do you think fiction is written with a clear agenda in mind by the author?

5. Research the life of Riggs and see if/where his life may have influenced his writing.

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