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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does August invite Jacob to go that night?
(a) To a new restaurant.
(b) To a church service.
(c) To a nightclub.
(d) To a seminar on animal care.

2. What does Jacob do that causes Marlena to leave him alone in an alley?
(a) Jacob kisses Marlena.
(b) Jacob tells Marlena she should not drink.
(c) Jacob tells Marlena she should divorce August.
(d) Jacob makes fun of Marlena's torn stockings.

3. Why is the train raided in Poughkepsie?
(a) To rid it of illegal drugs.
(b) To rid it of illegal alcohol.
(c) To search for illegal aliens.
(d) To recover stolen money and property.

4. How do Marlena and Jacob get separated from August?
(a) The police raid the nightclub.
(b) The restaurant is so crowded, the lose eachother in the crowd.
(c) They go to different seminar classes.
(d) They get lost on the way to the church.

5. What compromise does August come up with for Rosie?
(a) Rosie is to perform with another performer.
(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 dance to another type of song.

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

7. What does Jacob discover about Rosie?
(a) Rosie speaks Spanish.
(b) Rosie speaks Polish.
(c) Rosie speaks Russian.
(d) Rosie speaks Latin.

8. Who has a fist fight?
(a) August and Kinko.
(b) Jacob and Kinko.
(c) August and Earl.
(d) Jacob and August.

9. What is Kinko's real name?
(a) Walter.
(b) Stuart.
(c) Robert.
(d) Laurence.

10. What does Uncle Al reveal about August to Jacob?
(a) August is a paranoid schizophrenic.
(b) August is an alcoholic.
(c) August is a millionare.
(d) August has terminal cancer.

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

12. How does August react when he finds Jacob and Marlena in his tent?
(a) August is angry Marlena has wasted good wine on Jacob.
(b) August is already drunk and ready to drink more.
(c) August thinks he has walked in on a lover's tryst.
(d) August is excited about the nice dinner.

13. Where does young Jacob take Marlena the morning after their fights with August?
(a) To a motel.
(b) To Uncle Al.
(c) To her mother's house.
(d) To the police.

14. Who does Jacob and Walter decide to approach about caring for Camel?
(a) Camel's estranged son.
(b) Camel's daughter.
(c) Camel's cousin.
(d) Camel's ex-wife.

15. What is August suspicious of?
(a) That Rosie is not intelligent enough to learn a performance.
(b) Job cuts by Uncle Al.
(c) Jacob and Marlena.
(d) Stealing by one of his employees.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jacob beg Marlena not to do?

2. What does Marlena injure jumping out of Rosie's way?

3. Who does Jacob attempt to kill?

4. Elderly Jacob suffers two disappointments in chapter 19. What is the second?

5. Why does August give Marlena a black eye?

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