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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is something Uncle Oggie tells Jacob about the Home?
(a) The Home was moved three times.
(b) The Home is bombed early in WWII.
(c) The former residents of the Home live mostly in England.
(d) The previous director of the Home lives in Scotland.

2. How does Jacob sleep the first night at the inn?
(a) Fitfully but with no nightmares.
(b) Still has horrible nightmares.
(c) He is totally unable to sleep.
(d) Well for the first time in months.

3. Why does Abe go to a special school when he is young?
(a) He is extremely intelligent.
(b) To escape monsters that are after him.
(c) He is an orphan.
(d) He is blind.

4. What does Jacob say has recently changed in the novel’s Prologue?
(a) His life.
(b) His brother.
(c) His sister.
(d) His father.

5. What do Jacob's parents and the police not believe?
(a) Jacob's version of Abe's death.
(b) That Jacob's grandfather blames a gang of boys in the neighborhood.
(c) That Jacob could have seen a girl fly away from the site of Abe's death.
(d) That Jacob could have seen an invisible boy at the site of Abe's death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Jacob's father and aunt do with Jacob in Chapter 2?

2. Who is Abe?

3. How do Jacob and his father get to the island?

4. Who is Ricky?

5. What do Ricky and Jacob find in the woods as they follow a trail behind Jacob's grandfather's house?

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