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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rosie do when she sees the exit to the menagerie tent from the big top?
(a) Rosie tramples a clown.
(b) Rosie stops, refusing to move in any direction.
(c) Rosie runs to the menagerie tent.
(d) Rosie runs the opposite direction.

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

3. Who becomes drunk at the party in Chapter 10?
(a) August.
(b) Kinko.
(c) Uncle Al.
(d) Jacob.

4. What does Jacob beg Marlena not to do?
(a) Perform with the clowns that night.
(b) Perform with Rosie that night.
(c) Perform with the zebras that night.
(d) Perform with the horses that night.

5. Where does Jacob wake the next morning?
(a) In his own room.
(b) Inside a clown trunk, wearing clown makeup.
(c) In the big top.
(d) In the big cat car.

6. What does Jacob discover when he returns to his room?
(a) Walter and Camel have been redlighted.
(b) August has been murdered by someone else.
(c) Marlena has been redlighted.
(d) Uncle Al has been murdered.

7. What compromise does August come up with for Rosie?
(a) Rosie is to dance to another type of song.
(b) Rosie is to be put on display in the menagerie tent.
(c) Rosie rides in the parade on a hippo wagon.
(d) Rosie is to perform with another performer.

8. What does Jacob do while in this tent?
(a) Throws up on Barbara's friend and passes out.
(b) Falls asleep in the middle of a meeting.
(c) Drinks all the jake.
(d) Argues with circus policy.

9. Why did Marlena marry August?
(a) To join the circus.
(b) For love.
(c) To escape the mundane life her parents had planned for her.
(d) To escape an abusive boyfriend.

10. What has Uncle Al failed to buy for his new workers?
(a) Drink
(b) Sleeping cars.
(c) Food.
(d) Uniforms.

11. Who breaks up the fight?
(a) Rosie.
(b) Kinko.
(c) Marlena.
(d) A couple of workmen.

12. Who performs with Rosie?
(a) Jacob.
(b) Marlena.
(c) August.
(d) Kinko.

13. Why does Marlena refuse to leave with Jacob immediately?
(a) She wants to get some money from her stateroom.
(b) She wants to take her horses.
(c) She wants to take Rosie too.
(d) She wants to say goodbye to her friends.

14. Elderly Jacob suffers two disappointments in chapter 19. What is the second?
(a) Rosemary is leaving her job to move closer to her mother-in-law.
(b) Rosemary refuses to take him to the circus.
(c) Rosemary refuses to allow him to use his walker.
(d) Rosemary refuses to give him anymore cream with his breakfast.

15. What secret does Marlena tell Jacob?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) She is leaving the circus.
(c) She is filing for divorce.
(d) She is going back to August.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Jacob and Marlena decide not to run away?

2. Why can Jacob not sit with Kinko at breakfast?

3. Who is caught stealing lemonade?

4. How does Jacob convince Uncle Al to allow Marlena to return without returning to August?

5. What does Jacob use to pay for the doctor?

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