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

2. What form can an ymbryne take?
(a) Each one can take the form of a different reptile.
(b) Each one can take the form of a different person.
(c) Each one can take the form of a different mammal.
(d) Each one can take the form of a different bird.

3. What does Miss Peregrine say about Jacob in Chapter 6?
(a) He is not like his grandfather and has no special abilities.
(b) His ability has not yet shown itself.
(c) He is like his grandfather and is peculiar.
(d) He may become a ymbryne over time.

4. How is Jacob's mother described?
(a) Distracted.
(b) Rich socialite.
(c) Disconsolate about Abe's death.
(d) Down to earth and warm.

5. What seems to attract most of Jacob's father's attention?
(a) The plethora of spiders.
(b) A middle-aged woman he knew in childhood.
(c) Tracking down birds.
(d) The architecture.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what do some of the patrons at the Priest's Hole accuse Jacob?

2. Who has joined Emma when Jacob wakes from a faint in Chapter 5?

3. Why does Jacob and Ricky's friendship end?

4. What shocks Jacob when he is looking at some papers from the trunk in Chapter 5?

5. Who do the police send to work with Jacob?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Jacob and the other two children get to the Home and how does Emma act towards Jacob on the way?

2. What is different about the island when Jacob emerges from the tunnel in Chapter 5?

3. Where do Ricky and Jacob find Abe and what does Abe tell Jacob?

4. Describe the "help" Jacob gets from Dylan and Worm in finding the site of the former children's home.

5. Who is with Jacob when he comes to from his faint in Chapter 5 and what do they tell him?

6. What does Jacob say about his grandfather and a special school in the Prologue?

7. What does Miss Peregrine say about ymbrynes?

8. What photographs does Abe show Jacob, and what does Jacob come to believe about Abe's stories?

9. How is the last leg of the journey to Cairnholm accomplished, and what do Jacob and his father see in the waters along the way?

10. What does Jacob say about how his elderly grandfather has deteriorated in Chapter 1?

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