Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Study Guide Questions

1. What does Jacob say has recently changed?

2. What is the cause of the recent change Jacob discusses?

3. Who is Abe?

4. What is one story Abe tells Jacob?

5. Why does Abe go to a special school when he is young?

6. What does Jacob become more curious about as he gets older?

7. What is one photograph Abe shows Jacob?

8. What is another photograph Abe shows Jacob?

9. From where had Abe escaped the Nazis?

10. According to Jacob's father, what were the monsters to which Abe refers?

11. How does Abe take it when Jacob says he no longer believes Abe's stories?

12. How old is Jacob when a terrible thing changes his life forever?

13. What business(es) does Jacob's family own?

14. What is Jacob's job in his family's business?

15. What does Jacob's grandfather want when he calls Jacob?

16. What happens to Jacob's grandfather as he ages?

17. What collection does Jacob's grandfather keep in the garage?

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

19. Who is Ricky?

20. How is Ricky described?

21. How does Jacob get to where his grandfather lives?

22. What does Jacob notice about one of his grandfather's neighbors?

23. What do Ricky and Jacob find in the woods as they follow a trail?

24. Where does Jacob's grandfather tell Jacob to go?

25. Why does Jacob not leave his home after the death of his grandfather?

26. What happens when Jacob sleeps?

27. What do Jacob's parents the and police not believe?

28. Why do Jacob and Ricky's friendship end?

29. How is Jacob's mother described/

30. What do the police sent to work with Jacob?

31. Who is Dr. Golan?

32. What does Dr. Golan try to do for Jacob?

33. What do Jacob's father and aunt do?

34. What does Jacob's aunt give him?

35. Where does Jacob convince his parents it would good for him to visit?

36. Why is Jacob's father agreeable to go with Jacob?

37. How do Jacob and his father get to the island?

38. Where do Jacob and his father stay on the island?

39. Who gives Jacob and his father directions to their Inn?

40. What does Jacob learn about "the home"?

41. How does Jacob sleep the first night at the Inn?
42. What seems to attract most of Jacob's father's attention?

43. Who agrees to take Jacob to the home?

44. What is in the house Jacob is tricked into entering?

45. What does Jacob's father say about Abe that angers Jacob?

46. What does Martin Pagett say is the thing Jacob sees in the woods?

47. What is something Uncle Oggie tell Jacob about the home?

48. What does Jacob wake to find on his dresser?

49. What does Jacob do when he arrives back at the Home?

50. Where does Jacob search after his first search?

51. What does Jacob sense in one room he enters in the Home?

52. What does Jacob find that he imagines once belonged to his grandfather?

53. What upsets Jacob when he opens what he found?

54. Where is the truck that Jacob finds?

55. Why doesn't Jacob open the trunk right away?

56. How does the trunk end up in the basement?

57. For what does Jacob use his cell phone?

58. What is coming out of the hands of a young girl in a photograph Jacob finds?

59. What shocks Jacob when he is looking at some papers from the trunk?

60. Where has Jacob seen the view he sees from one end of the tunnel?

61. What has changed since Jacob went in the tunnel?

62. Why does Jacob think people are staring at him?

63. What does Jacob discover when he arrives back at The Priest's Hole?

64. Of what do some of The Priest's Hole accuse Jacob?

65. Who accuses Jacob of being a wight?

66. What is the year on the calendar in the hut where Jacob is taken?

67. What is the month on the calendar?

68. Who has joined Emma when Jacob wakes from a faint?

69. What does Milliard look at as he is planning the escape of Emma, Jacob and himself?
70. How does Emma create a distraction in The Priest's Hole?

71. Where does Emma shove Jacob while they are in The Priest's Hole?

72. How does Milliard explain their situation?

73. What do Jacob, Emma and Millard do after the cart leaves the village boundary?

74. What surprises Jacob when they finally arrive at the children's home?

75. Who does Jacob recognize at the house?

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

77. Who does Jacob meet inside the house?

78. What does Miss Peregrine reveal to Jacob?

79. What are segments of time and space existing outside the normal lines?

80. What replays every 24 hours?

81. What does Miss Peregrine show Jacob in photo albums?

82. What is an ymbryne?

83. What form can an ymbryne take?

84. What does Miss Peregrine say about Jacob?

85. What does Miss Peregrine have Jacob wear?

86. What is Olive's special ability?

87. What does Claire's long hair conceal?

88. What is one question the other children ask Miss Peregrine?

89. Who doesn't need something anymore that Miss Peregrine gives Jacob?

90. How does Jacob act to the sound of planes?

91. What time do Jacob and the children go to when the bomb explodes?

92. Why does Jacob think he needs to go back to the inn?

93. Who takes Jacob back to the cairn?

94. What do Jacob and his guide do when they go in the cairn?

95. What does Jacob's father say when Jacob sees him?

96. What does Jacob begin to wonder about the house?

97. What is the weather like the next day after Jacob returns to his time?
98. What does Jacob tell his father he is going to do that day?

99. About what does Jacob worry as he goes back through the cairn?

100. Who is waiting for Jacob?

101. What have Miss Peregrine and the children prepared for Jacob?

102. What does Emma say peculiar children used to do years ago?

103. What is Fiona called?

104. What is Emma's talent?

105. What do Emma, Jacob and some of the older children do after lunch?

106. What does Millard say he is doing?

107. What do the children ask Jacob?

108. What has been killed while Jacob is gone this day?

109. What is the first thing Jacob notices when he wakes?

110. What is withered and crumbly?

111. Why is Miss Peregrine angry with Jacob?

112. What is Miss Peregrine's rationale for her anger?

113. Why can't the children leave the loop?

114. What would happen if the children leave the Home?

115. What is paradoxical to Jacob about the home?

116. What does Jacob follow to Enoch?

117. What can Enoch do?

118. What game does Jacob discuss?

119. Who is Victor's sister?

120. According to Enoch, what doesn't Emma believe the children should do?

121. What does Jacob have to avoid after leaving Victor's room?

122. What room does Jacob inadvertently duck into when avoiding someone else?

123. Where does Jacob discover a box of letters and photos that pertain to Emma and Abe's
relationship?

124. Who sends Emma a photograph of a child named Susie?

125. What does Jacob think Emma's motivation might be concerning him?
126. What does Emma keep trying to do?

127. About whom does Jacob ask Emma?

128. What does Jacob say his grandfather sent Jacob to do?

129. What does Jacob find when he returns to The Priest's Hole?

130. Who else has arrived on the island that discourages Jacob's father?

131. Where does Emma take Jacob to talk?

132. What does Emma say is Jacob's talent?

133. Who is able to see the hollowgast?

134. Who cannot enter loops?

135. Who was killed by a wight?

136. What does Jacob say about Abe's death?

137. What do Hugh and Fiona tell Jacob and Emma?

138. Who is Miss Avocet?

139. What is one reason Abe left the loop?

140. What does Miss Peregrine say she was unsure of concerning Jacob?

141. What does Jacob realize about his grandfather?

142. Who is Miss Bunting?

143. What are hollowgasts?

144. About what does Jacob warn his father?

145. What is Jacob's dilemma?

146. What does Jacob think he cannot do?

147. What state is Jacob's father in frequently?

148. What is Miss Peregrine doing that is keeping tension among the children?

149. What sort of dream does Horace have?

150. Who is murdered in Cairnholm?

151. What does Jacob realize about the murder?

152. How does Miss Peregrine react to the news about the murder?

153. How do the students learn that the dead person is killed by a wight?
154. Who offers Jacob a deal?

155. Who is Malthus?

156. What weapon does Jacob use to kill the hollowgast?

157. Who meets Jacob and Emma as they come back through the cairn?

158. Who kidnaps Miss Peregrine and Miss Avocet?

159. Where do the children think the Golan will try to leave the island?

160. Who observes Golan from a hiding place?

161. Where does it appear that Golan is trapped?

162. Who decides s/he is best equipped to make a sneak attack?

163. What does Bronwyn dive down and retrieve?

164. How does Bronwyn stop Golan from shooting the birds?

165. What motivates Jacob to shoot Golan?

166. What rises out of the water as Emma and Jacob watch?

167. What is wrong with Miss Peregrine?

168. What has not be reset as it was supposed to be done?

169. What do the children discover when they return to the house?

170. Why can't Miss Peregrine explain what is happening?

171. What does Horace say a vision tells him?

172. About what do the children argue?

173. What does Bronwyn think the picture Horace draws looks like?

174. What do the peculiar children retrieve from the house?

175. At what are the wights skilled concerning loops?

176. Where does Jacob go one last time?

177. What does Jacob start to do and change his mind?

178. What does Jacob's father say about Jacob's friends?

179. What does Emma leave with Jacob for his father?

180. Who do the children bury before leaving the island?