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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the first job Jacob is given with the circus?
(a) Cleaning the cookhouse.
(b) Feeding the big cats.
(c) Mucking out the stalls for the stock horses.
(d) Putting up the tents.

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

5. Why can Jacob not change his clothes the next morning?
(a) The horse needs immediate attention.
(b) Kinko blocks his access to their room.
(c) Camel needs Jacob's help.
(d) Kinko has thrown all of Jacob's clothes away.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a cooch show in the circus?

2. What does Jacob think about as he watches?

3. Where does Jacob sleep his first night in his new sleeping quarters?

4. Who is Uncle Al?

5. Why does Jacob dislike this guest?

(see the answer key)

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