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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 does Uncle Al want Jacob to do?
(a) Uncle Al wants Jacob to leave the circus.
(b) Uncle Al wants Jacob to force Marlena to leave the circus.
(c) Uncle Al wants Jacob to force August to leave the circus.
(d) Uncle Al wants Jacob to get August and Marlena back together.

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

3. 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.

4. How does Uncle Al use this death to increase ticket sales?
(a) He throws a funeral parade.
(b) He makes her body an exhibit with the side show.
(c) He does multiple interviews about the sadness of the situation.
(d) He offers free souvenirs in her name.

5. Elderly Jacob suffers two disappointments in chapter 19. What is the first?
(a) His son forgets it is his day to visit.
(b) His wife is unable to visit.
(c) His grandson decides he does not have time to visit.
(d) His great-granddaughter does not want to go to the circus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jacob agree to sit at his old table?

2. What does Rosie do when she sees the exit to the menagerie tent from the big top?

3. What is August suspicious of?

4. Why is elderly Jacob frightened?

5. Who does Jacob attempt to kill?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What warning does Jacob receive that something might happen during the show that night?

3. What is rumored to be wrong with the elephant?

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

5. What is stolen several days in a row?

6. What does Jacob discover about Rosie?

7. What does Jacob use to pay the doctor?

8. What happens when Jacob goes into Chicago with August and Marlena?

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

10. Why did Marlena marry August?

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