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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Jacob's grandfather as he ages?
(a) He becomes more and more withdrawn.
(b) His dementia worsens.
(c) He becomes more and more volatile.
(d) His arthritis worsens.

2. What does Jacob's grandfather want when he calls Jacob?
(a) To ask Jacob where Jacob's mother is.
(b) To tell Jacob a monster is on the way to where Jacob works.
(c) His key.
(d) To tell Jacob to run and hide.

3. What is the cause of the recent change Jacob discusses?
(a) A particular event related to his grandfather.
(b) His sister being kidnapped.
(c) His mother's death.
(d) His brother's joining the military.

4. How is Ricky described?
(a) Geek.
(b) Nerd.
(c) Punk rocker.
(d) Weird.

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

6. What do Ricky and Jacob find in the woods as they follow a trail behind Jacob's grandfather's house?
(a) Jacob's grandfather's dead dog.
(b) Jacob's grandfather, bloody and semi-conscious.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A neighbor's dead body.

7. Who is Abe?
(a) Jacob's great uncle.
(b) The name Jacob uses at school.
(c) Jacob's grandfather.
(d) Jacob's brother.

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

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

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

11. How do Jacob and his father get to the island?
(a) They sail in their boat.
(b) They hire a private boat.
(c) They take a helicopter.
(d) They take a ferry.

12. Who agrees to take Jacob to the Home?
(a) Dylan.
(b) The police officer.
(c) The local drunk.
(d) The museum curator.

13. From where had Abe escaped the Nazis?
(a) Poland.
(b) Holland.
(c) Hungary.
(d) France.

14. What does Jacob wake to find on his dresser in Chapter 4?
(a) A paper with runes.
(b) A raven.
(c) A piece of broken pottery.
(d) A peregrine falcon.

15. Who do the police send to work with Jacob?
(a) A police artist.
(b) No one.
(c) A private detective..
(d) A grief counselor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Dr. Golan?

2. What does Jacob say has recently changed in the novel’s Prologue?

3. How is Jacob's mother described?

4. What replays every 24 hours?

5. Who does Jacob recognize at the Home?

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