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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. Why does Jacob and Ricky's friendship end?
(a) Jacob thinks Ricky ran out on him.
(b) Ricky does not believe Jacob's account of what he saw when holding his dying grandfather.
(c) Ricky thinks Jacob set up his grandfather.
(d) Jacob thinks Ricky did not hurry fast enough to get help.

2. How old is Jacob when the terrible event changes his life forever?
(a) 9.
(b) 10.
(c) 15.
(d) 12.

3. Where do Jacob and his father stay on the island?
(a) The Spindrift.
(b) The Priest's Hole Inn.
(c) The Do Drop Inn.
(d) The Porpoise Inn.

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

5. What does Jacob notice about one of his grandfather's neighbors?
(a) He is getting shorter by the month.
(b) He is getting taller every month.
(c) He is in a wheelchair.
(d) He has a white film over his eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Martin Pagett identify as the thing Jacob has seen in the woods?

2. Who is Ricky?

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

4. What seems to attract most of Jacob's father's attention?

5. What is one story Abe tells Jacob?

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