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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How often does each relative come to see Jacob?
(a) Once or twice a week.
(b) Every day.
(c) Once or twice a month.
(d) Once or twice a year.

2. What does Jacob see for the first time during the cooch show?
(a) A naked man.
(b) A naked midget.
(c) A naked woman.
(d) A nursing mother.

3. What does Uncle Al tell Jacob about the possibility of a job with the circus?
(a) Uncle Al gives Jacob a job, but it is dependent on his ability to save the horse.
(b) Uncle Al tells Jacob to leave, they cannot afford another worker.
(c) Uncle Al tells Jacob to leave the train, he is not a good enough vet to justify the expense of keeping him on.
(d) Jacob has a job, but he will not be paid for a trial period of several weeks.

4. Why does Jacob dislike this guest?
(a) He knows he is lying and he is jealous of the attention he is getting.
(b) The guest is disrespectful to Jacob.
(c) He dislikes braggarts.
(d) He remembers this person from his own youth.

5. Who does Camel attempt to speak to on Jacob's behalf?
(a) Walter
(b) Uncle Al
(c) Marlena
(d) August

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

7. What does Jacob see outside the window?
(a) An advertisment for a new senility drug.
(b) A new resident arriving.
(c) A circus setting up a block or two away.
(d) A moving van at the house next door.

8. What does Jacob's doctor believe has caused his recent outburst?
(a) The doctor believes Jacob is depressed over his wife's death.
(b) The doctor believes Jacob is developing schizophrenia.
(c) The doctor believes Jacob is just a miserly old man.
(d) The doctor believes Jacob is suffering demensia.

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

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

11. Where is Jacob taken after it is decided he will remain with the circus to examine a sick animal?
(a) To Uncle Al's private car.
(b) To a prison cell.
(c) To the clown car.
(d) To a car split between horses and a small room once used for goats.

12. Where is Jacob at the beginning of his circus memories?
(a) In the train belonging to a circus.
(b) In the cookhouse of a circus.
(c) In the menagerie tent of a circus.
(d) In the big top watching a circus.

13. What job does Jacob's new roommate have?
(a) Security
(b) Animal Care
(c) Handyman
(d) Clown

14. Why does young Jacob meet with August in the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) Jacob meets with August to discuss his new job duties.
(b) Jacob meets with August to get his meal tickets.
(c) Jacob meets with August in order to check on the sick horse.
(d) Jacom meets with August to thank him for his kindness the night before.

15. What is Jacob doing just before the stampede begins?
(a) Caring for animals
(b) Reading
(c) Eating
(d) Sleeping

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprise does Rosemary add to Jacob's breakfast tray?

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

3. Where does Jacob find Marlena?

4. What does Rosemary help Jacob do next?

5. Why is Jacob in the assisted-living center?

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