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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is August suspicious of?
(a) Stealing by one of his employees.
(b) Jacob and Marlena.
(c) That Rosie is not intelligent enough to learn a performance.
(d) Job cuts by Uncle Al.

2. What does Jacob do to irritate August when they stop that night?
(a) Jacob insults Marlena.
(b) Jacob refuses to check on Marlena's sick horse.
(c) Jacob overrides an order August gave the men.
(d) Jacob insults Uncle Al.

3. Where is Jacob taken after it is decided he will remain with the circus to examine a sick animal?
(a) To Uncle Al's private car.
(b) To a prison cell.
(c) To the clown car.
(d) To a car split between horses and a small room once used for goats.

4. What does Uncle Al announce to the circus crew and performers?
(a) They are moving on sooner than expected.
(b) They are going to be making cutbacks.
(c) They are adding a new act.
(d) They are going bankrupt.

5. What punishment does August give Jacob?
(a) August forces Jacob to leave the train.
(b) August makes Jacob feed the big cats causing him to be bitten by a toothless lion.
(c) August tells Jacob to polish his boots.
(d) August forces Jacob to muck out the animal stalls.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Uncle Al pushed the circus to reach?

2. What does Uncle Al order be done with Jacob?

3. Why was Jacob's father unable to pay his mortgage?

4. What new animal does Uncle Al buy?

5. Why does August become annoyed with Marlena over lunch in Chapter 9?

(see the answer key)

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