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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the month on the calendar in the hut in Chapter 5?

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

3. What is one photograph Abe shows Jacob?

4. What does the word “peregrine” refer to?

5. What does Jacob say he will do when his grandfather calls?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Jacob's parents do after the police artist ploy does not seem to help Jacob?

2. What does Jacob tell his parents, the police, and Ricky about what he saw when his grandfather died? What is their response?

3. What does Jacob convince his parents that he should do to help him recover from Abe's death?

4. What does Jacob first find during the exploration of the abandoned Home in Chapter 5?

5. What does Jacob watch out of the window of the Home in Chapter 6?

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

7. Describe Jacob's conversation with Martin Pagett's Uncle Oggie.

8. What motivates Jacob to run into the bog near the house in Chapter 5?

9. What does Emma do to ensure Jacob's escape from the village people in Chapter 5?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jacob’s story serves as a Hero’s Journey on various levels and is comparable to other novels and series’ exploring similar themes. As with Jacob’s discovery of the Home, there are also echoes of other stories of so-called "special" young people being kept safe and hidden from the world.

1. Why do you think allegorical stories of a Hero's Journey often take place in alternative worlds? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Do you think special people or people who are very different from others need protection from exploitation or attack? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Chose two of the peculiar children in this book and explain how they might be exploited in normal "real" society and why you think this would happen. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Characters are an integral and important part of almost all novels. Discuss the following:

1. Compare/contrast the characters of Jacob and his father. How are they similar? How are they different? Is there a flaw in each of their personalities? Be specific and give examples.

2. Compare/contrast the characters of Emma and Miss Peregrine. How do they seem different? Which do you like more? Why? Which one seems more of a well-rounded character?

3. Thoroughly analyze how three of the secondary characters in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children help drive the plot and what their contribution is to the storyline. Are any of the secondary characters unnecessary? Indispensable? Which of the secondary characters are likable? Which are either unlikable or even despicable? Be specific and give examples.

Essay Topic 3

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children belongs to the fantasy genre. Discuss the following:

1. Define the literary term "genre" and give several examples of three other genres in addition to the fantasy genre.

2. Discuss two reasons why it might be useful to label a text by genre and two reasons it might be disadvantageous to label a text by genre.

3. What do you think is the difference between a fantasy and a historical novel mystery?

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