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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jacob's one pleasure at the assisted-living center?
(a) The time to read his favorite books.
(b) The nurses who dote on him.
(c) The good food.
(d) The attention of the female residents.

2. Who is Marlena, the woman Jacob is looking for in the prologue?
(a) Jacob's girlfriend
(b) Jacob's cousin
(c) Jacob's friend
(d) Jacob's sister

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

4. What is Jacob told as he runs toward the big top?
(a) Jacob is told the police are raiding the train
(b) Jacob is told Marlena has been injured
(c) Jacob is told the animals are stampeding
(d) Jacob is told August is looking for him

5. What is the menagerie tent?
(a) The tent where the animals are housed.
(b) The tent where the managers have their offices.
(c) The tent where the performers wait to go on.
(d) The tent where the supplies are stored.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Uncle Al order be done with Jacob?

2. Why does Jacob keep this act perpetrated against August secret for more than half a century?

3. Where does Jacob go when he hears the music change?

4. What draws Jacob to the window?

5. Why does Jacob take a train home?

(see the answer key)

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