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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

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) Being old and being treated like a fragile being.
(d) His inability to stay in his wheelchair all day.

2. What does Jacob see someone do to August at the end of the prologue?
(a) Push him in front of a stampeding elephant
(b) Hit him on the head with an iron stake
(c) Slap him for a rude comment
(d) Urge him to leave the tent

3. Where does Jacob find Marlena?
(a) In the big top
(b) On the train
(c) In the menagerie tent
(d) In town

4. Who is Jacob, the character introduced in the prologue?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A circus performer.
(c) A circus workman.
(d) A cook.

5. What is Jacob studying at school?
(a) Law
(b) Engineering.
(c) Veterinary Medicine.
(d) Medicine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does this guest claim to have done as a young person?

2. Who is kind to Jacob despite his foul mood at dinner?

3. Who is Marlena, the woman Jacob is looking for in the prologue?

4. What person in Jacob's life has recently died?

5. Why does Jacob take a train home?

(see the answer key)

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