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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Jacob's father, what were the monsters to which Abe refers?
(a) A gang of boys who were wild on the streets of Belgrade during WWII.
(b) A gang of boys who were wild on the streets of Prague during WWII.
(c) Nazi soldiers.
(d) A cruel orphanage manager.

3. What is in the house Jacob is tricked into entering?
(a) Thousands of bats.
(b) A wolverine.
(c) A human skeleton.
(d) Piles of sheep dung.

4. What does Martin Pagett identify as the thing Jacob has seen in the woods?
(a) An very ancient grave yard.
(b) The 2000-year-old mummified remains of a human.
(c) A bear that was sacrificed many centuries ago and mummified.
(d) The remains of a man who was attacked by a bear.

5. What are segments of time and space existing outside the normal lines referred to in the novel?
(a) Loops.
(b) Alternate dimensions.
(c) Bytes.
(d) There is no such thing.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Jacob's father agreeable to go with Jacob on a trip?

3. What is Jacob's job in his family's business?

4. What does Millard explain to Jacob about the children?

5. Where does Jacob's grandfather tell Jacob to go in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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