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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jacob lament about his current circumstances?
(a) His inablity to argue for arguement's sake.
(b) Being too tired to eat an entire meal.
(c) His inability to stay in his wheelchair all day.
(d) Being old and being treated like a fragile being.

2. How does Jacob react to the nurse's response to his complaint?
(a) Jacob picks a fight with the new resident.
(b) Jacob knocks his plate onto the floor.
(c) Jacob insists on going to his room.
(d) Jacob argues with the nurse.

3. What impresses Jacob about a woman he sees in the menagerie tent in Chapter 3?
(a) She is extremely beautiful
(b) She is extremely fat
(c) She is extremely hairy
(d) She is extremely disfigured.

4. Why is Jacob in the assisted-living center?
(a) He is old.
(b) He wants to be near people his own age.
(c) He broke his hip and needs extra help while he recovers.
(d) He has no family to care for him.

5. Why does Jacob help the barker?
(a) It ingratiates him with the circus owner.
(b) Its the right thing to do.
(c) It gets him a better job.
(d) It ingratiates him with the workers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jacob's father do for a living?

2. What holds Jacob's attention in class in Chapter 2?

3. Where is Jacob taken after it is decided he will remain with the circus to examine a sick animal?

4. What kind of train does Jacob jump?

5. What is jake?

(see the answer key)

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