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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Marlena, the woman Jacob is looking for in the prologue?
(a) Jacob's friend
(b) Jacob's cousin
(c) Jacob's girlfriend
(d) Jacob's sister

2. What does Jacob lament about his current circumstances?
(a) His inability to stay in his wheelchair all day.
(b) Being old and being treated like a fragile being.
(c) Being too tired to eat an entire meal.
(d) His inablity to argue for arguement's sake.

3. What school does Jacob attend?
(a) Notre Dame University.
(b) Cornell University.
(c) Duke University.
(d) Cambridge University.

4. Where does Jacob find Marlena?
(a) In town
(b) In the big top
(c) On the train
(d) In the menagerie tent

5. Who is Jacob, the character introduced in the prologue?
(a) A cook.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A circus workman.
(d) A circus performer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Jacob in the assisted-living center?

2. Why is class interrupted?

3. Why does Jacob keep this act perpetrated against August secret for more than half a century?

4. What holds Jacob's attention in class in Chapter 2?

5. What song does Jacob hear being played as the stampede begins?

(see the answer key)

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