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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Jacob use to pay for the doctor?
(a) Illegal alcohol.
(b) His pay from the circus.
(c) His father's pocket watch.
(d) Kinko's pay.

3. Why do Jacob and Marlena decide not to run away?
(a) Marlena wants to keep her job.
(b) Jacob wants to finish his degree first.
(c) Marlena wants to make amends with August.
(d) Jacob wants to get Camel to his son first.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Marlena refuse to leave with Jacob immediately?

2. What does Uncle Al want Rosie to do during the show?

3. What does Uncle Al want Jacob to do?

4. Where does young Jacob take Marlena the morning after their fights with August?

5. Elderly Jacob suffers two disappointments in chapter 19. What is the first?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Jacob has too much to drink?

2. What happens after Jacob and Marlena escape the club?

3. Why is the train raided in Poughkeepsie?

4. How does Jacob convince Uncle Al to keep August from Marlena?

5. What is stolen several days in a row?

6. What happens when Rosie is forced to participate in the Grand Spec before she is prepared?

7. What does Uncle Al use to increase ticket sales?

8. Who becomes ill, forcing Jacob to examine him?

9. Why did Marlena marry August?

10. How does August react to Marlena's surprise?

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