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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Can Jacob heal the horse he examines?
(a) Yes, but it will take a special surgery to do it.
(b) No, Jacob knows the injury cannot be healed.
(c) Yes, but the horse will need to be left behind when the circus moves on.
(d) No, Jacob does not have the necessary equipment to heal the horse.

2. Who is coming to visit Jacob that day?
(a) One of his great-grandchildren.
(b) One of his children.
(c) Marlena.
(d) One of his grandchildren.

3. What does Jacob think about as he watches?
(a) If the new game is as boring as it looks.
(b) If the new dancer could be any worse.
(c) If the circus acts are as good as Marlena's act was.
(d) If the new movie is worth watching.

4. What does Jacob risk by helping Marlena with her horse?
(a) His job.
(b) His life.
(c) His safety.
(d) His veterinarian career.

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

6. Who joins Jacob and his friends at dinner?
(a) A new nurse.
(b) A new doctor.
(c) A new resident, a retired actress from Hollywood.
(d) A new resident, a retired lawyer.

7. What holds the attention of many of the assisted-living center's residents in Chapter 5?
(a) A new game in the activity room.
(b) The circus.
(c) A movie in the activity room.
(d) A new resident who can dance.

8. What school does Jacob attend?
(a) Cornell University.
(b) Notre Dame University.
(c) Cambridge University.
(d) Duke University.

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

10. What person in Jacob's life has recently died?
(a) His doctor.
(b) His long time friend.
(c) His child.
(d) His wife.

11. What is a cooch show in the circus?
(a) A show where a woman sings into a conch shell.
(b) A show where a woman does tricks on horseback.
(c) A show where animals do tricks.
(d) A show where women strip for customers.

12. What does Jacob do to irritate August when they stop that night?
(a) Jacob overrides an order August gave the men.
(b) Jacob refuses to check on Marlena's sick horse.
(c) Jacob insults Uncle Al.
(d) Jacob insults Marlena.

13. What does Camel tell Jacob he will have to learn to get along?
(a) How to fight.
(b) Patience.
(c) Self-reliance.
(d) Circus lingo.

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

15. Why does Camel drink jake?
(a) It is cheap.
(b) It was a gift.
(c) It is Prohibition and it is the only alcohol he can find.
(d) It is tasty.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Jacob see someone do to August at the end of the prologue?

3. What happens when Marlena and August dance at dinner?

4. What does the doctor prescribe for Jacob after his outburst at dinner?

5. Why does Jacob help Marlena with her horse?

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