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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which relatives does Jacob have trouble remembering?
(a) Everyone but his children.
(b) Everyone but his grandchildren.
(c) Everyone but his wife.
(d) Everyone but his great-grandchildren.

2. Who dies?
(a) Rosie.
(b) Camel.
(c) August.
(d) Lovely Lucinda.

3. Why has Jacob come to live at the assisted-living center?
(a) Jacob did not want to live alone anymore.
(b) Jacob lost his house in a foreclosure and had no where else to go.
(c) His family felt he could not live alone anymore and none of them could take him in.
(d) Jacob did not want to live with any of his children.

4. Why does Jacob return to school?
(a) He wants to make amends for his poor actions of the past.
(b) He wants to be with his friends.
(c) He wants to make his parents proud.
(d) He has nowhere else to go.

5. What is the only thing Jacob is able to take from his parents' home?
(a) His mother's wedding ring.
(b) His father's gold watch.
(c) His father's car.
(d) His mother's cookbook.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a cooch show in the circus?

2. What makes Jacob upset with Uncle Al in Chapter 9?

3. How does August react when he finds Jacob and Marlena in his tent?

4. What does the barker do to reward Jacob?

5. What surprise does Marlena arrange for August?

(see the answer key)

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