Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Assessment Exam Questions and Answers 100% Verified

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Assessment
Exam Questions and Answers 100% Verified


1. What is the setting of the book?: Cairnholm Island, Wales, September 3, 1940; Cairnholm I
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sland, Wales, present day
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2. Why can't Jacob get fired from the Smart Aid store?: His family (uncle) owns the store.
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3. Why does Jacob think that his grandfather is imagining things?: His grandpa is very old, and
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hthe stories sound similar to the story of Santa Claus. Once he sees the pictures, he no longer
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4. How does Grandpa Portman expect to deal with these 'monsters'?: He has a gun/weapo
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n collection.
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5. What does Jacob's father plan on doing with Grandpa Portman?Why?: They plan on putting
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hhim in a nursing home.
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6. Why does Jacob blame himself for his grandfather's death?: He did not believe his gran
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dfather, and once he sees something in the woods, he knows that his grandfather was not m
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aking the stories up.
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7. Why does Jacob get rid of his grandfather's box with the photographs?: It reminds him o
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f the stories that his grandfather used to tell.
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8. According to Martin, how did everyone at the old house die?: During an air raid on Septe
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9. What is the difference between peculiar people and common people?: Pe-
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hculiar people have special abilities, and when they are in a loop, they do not age.
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10. What is a loop?: A loop is a day in time that repeats over and over again. Peculiar chi
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ldren hide in the loops to stay safe from wights.
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11. Why did Miss Peregrine make a home for children? What was her pur-
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hpose?: Miss Peregrine made a home for the children to keep them safe.
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12. Why do the children not age?: They repeat the same day over and over again.
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13. What type of masks do the children wear outside? Why do they have to wear them?: Th
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e children wear gas masks outside to protect them from the bombs that fall everyday.
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14. Why does Emma feel a connection to Jacob, even though she has never met him?: Ja
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, cob reminds Emma of Abraham whom she loved
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15. Why is Miss Peregrine upset that Jacob told the other children about things in the future?
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: Miss Peregrine does not want to the children to want to leave the loop. It is better to only tell th
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e children about the bad things that happen in the world so that they will want to stay safe.
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16. Why is it so dangerous for children to travel into the future? What would happen if the
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y do?: The children will age rapidly and die within a few hours.
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17. Why does Jacob come to realize that as much as he likes the island he also considers it a
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prison?: The children are trapped on the island. They live the same day over and over and expe
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