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

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

3. What injury had Jacob suffered?
(a) A strained ankle.
(b) A broken wrist.
(c) A concussion.
(d) A black eye.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is redlighted?

3. Where do Walter and Jacob hide Camel in the meantime?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are Camel and Walter thrown from the train?

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

3. What does Jacob discover about Rosie?

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

5. Why is the train raided in Poughkeepsie?

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

7. What does Jacob use to pay the doctor?

8. What does elderly Jacob learn about Rosemary that upsets him?

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

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

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