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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does learning Rosie's language help August?
(a) Learning her language helps prove Rosie is stupid.
(b) Learning commands in her language enables August to train Rosie.
(c) Learning her language makes it possible to control Rosie's theiving habits.
(d) Learning her language makes it possible for August to care about Rosie.

2. Why does Jacob agree to sit at his old table?
(a) Jacob wants to make Rosemary happy.
(b) Jacob wants to make peace with everyone so the doctor will stop insisting he take his new medication.
(c) Jacob wants to fight and he figures the new resident would make a good target.
(d) Jacob wants to be near the ladies.

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

4. Who does Jacob see beating a stampeding Rosie?
(a) Marlena.
(b) August.
(c) Uncle Al.
(d) Kinko.

5. Who is Jacob told has become ill?
(a) August.
(b) Marlena.
(c) Kinko.
(d) Camel.

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

7. Why can Jacob not sit with Kinko at breakfast?
(a) It goes against circus ettiquette.
(b) Jacob is not liked by Kinko's other friends.
(c) Kinko's table is overcrowded already.
(d) Uncle Al does not allow the clowns to socialize with other workers.

8. Who arranges for a doctor?
(a) Uncle Al.
(b) Marlena.
(c) Kinko.
(d) August.

9. What is redlighted?
(a) When a person is fired from the circus.
(b) When a person is injured in the big top.
(c) When a person is thrown from a train against his will.
(d) When a person is caught with illegal liquor.

10. What gift does August offer Jacob for his help with Rosie?
(a) A new watch.
(b) A gold ring.
(c) A new job.
(d) A raise.

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

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

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

14. Where do Walter and Jacob hide Camel in the meantime?
(a) In their room.
(b) In the big cat car.
(c) In the cookhouse.
(d) In Marlena's state car.

15. Who does Jacob see kill August?
(a) Marlena.
(b) Uncle Al.
(c) Rosie.
(d) Camel.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Jacob want to see?

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

4. What does Uncle Al reveal about August to Jacob?

5. Who is caught stealing lemonade?

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