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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Uncle Al want Rosie to do?
(a) Perform an act with Marlena.
(b) Dance to an Irish jig.
(c) Participate in a parade through town.
(d) Entertain the small children coming to the show.

2. What surprise does Marlena arrange for August?
(a) Dinner with her, Jacob, and Rosie.
(b) A gift of a new gold ring.
(c) A new horse.
(d) A new costume.

3. What has caused this illness?
(a) Tainted jake.
(b) A virus spreading through the city.
(c) Spoiled food.
(d) An infection from a prior injury.

4. What does Rosie do when she sees the exit to the menagerie tent from the big top?
(a) Rosie runs the opposite direction.
(b) Rosie tramples a clown.
(c) Rosie stops, refusing to move in any direction.
(d) Rosie runs to the menagerie tent.

5. What does Uncle Al reveal about August to Jacob?
(a) August has terminal cancer.
(b) August is a millionare.
(c) August is an alcoholic.
(d) August is a paranoid schizophrenic.

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

7. Who does Jacob see kill August?
(a) Uncle Al.
(b) Marlena.
(c) Camel.
(d) Rosie.

8. What does a nurse refuse to bring elderly Jacob in Chapter 13?
(a) His walker.
(b) His medications.
(c) A drink.
(d) Food.

9. What does Uncle Al want Jacob to do?
(a) Uncle Al wants Jacob to leave the circus.
(b) Uncle Al wants Jacob to force August to leave the circus.
(c) Uncle Al wants Jacob to force Marlena to leave the circus.
(d) Uncle Al wants Jacob to get August and Marlena back together.

10. What has Uncle Al failed to buy for his new workers?
(a) Food.
(b) Drink
(c) Uniforms.
(d) Sleeping cars.

11. What is redlighted?
(a) When a person is injured in the big top.
(b) When a person is thrown from a train against his will.
(c) When a person is fired from the circus.
(d) When a person is caught with illegal liquor.

12. What secret does Marlena tell Jacob?
(a) She is leaving the circus.
(b) She is filing for divorce.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) She is going back to August.

13. Why can Jacob not sit with Kinko at breakfast?
(a) Jacob is not liked by Kinko's other friends.
(b) Uncle Al does not allow the clowns to socialize with other workers.
(c) Kinko's table is overcrowded already.
(d) It goes against circus ettiquette.

14. Why does August give Marlena a black eye?
(a) She hit him first.
(b) She called him a nasty name.
(c) She said she was leaving him.
(d) She admitted to having an affair with Jacob.

15. What is Kinko's real name?
(a) Robert.
(b) Stuart.
(c) Walter.
(d) Laurence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Elderly Jacob suffers two disappointments in chapter 19. What is the first?

2. What does Jacob do while in this tent?

3. Who takes Jacob to their tent?

4. What does Jacob discover when he returns to his room?

5. Why do Jacob and Marlena decide not to run away?

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