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ABOUT THE BOOK
NO SPOILERSSara Louise Bradshaw grows up on Rass, a tiny island in the Chesapeake Bay, where she spends her days crabbing the eelgrass with her best friend Call and chafing under the long shadow of her twin sister Caroline. Caroline is beautiful, gifted, and effortlessly beloved by everyone on the island, while Sara Louise, nicknamed Wheeze, feels overlooked and forgotten at every turn. When a mysterious old man arrives on the ferry and moves into the long-abandoned Wallace house at the edge of the marsh, Sara Louise's suspicion and curiosity pull her toward him, and the summer of 1941 begins to shift in ways she did not expect.
Free Battle of the Books questions for Jacob Have I Loved
SPOILERSEvery one of these has the same answer, and that is the point. In a real battle the question is read aloud with a dozen other books in play, and students have a few seconds to place it. Here is what a battle might ask about Jacob Have I Loved. Use them as a quiz, a trivia round, or BOTB practice.
Where in the book they come from
- Early in the book
In what book does a girl learn about Pearl Harbor by sneaking the radio on a Sunday afternoon?
✓ Answer
Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
On December 7, 1941, Louise breaks the Methodist Sabbath rules and turns on the radio while her grandmother snores and her sister reads Sunday school papers. She hears the news of the Japanese attack and runs to drag her sister downstairs to listen.
- First half
In what book does a girl write song lyrics about gulls crying over a sailor far across the sea?
✓ Answer
Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
Louise crafts a poem with the line "When the gulls fly over the Bay" hoping it will be set to music and become a hit on the radio. Call ruins the moment by arguing that no gull is actually crying about a sailor gone to war.
- First half
In what book does a girl find an old woman lying unconscious on the floor with cats walking across her?
✓ Answer
Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
When Louise tries to return a runaway tomcat, she peers through a torn screen and sees a dark form on the front room floor. Cats are perched on top of the woman, and Louise panics and races back to the Captain for help.
- Second half
In what book does a man stare at empty water where his house stood the night before?
✓ Answer
Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
When Louise poles the Captain to where his house had stood, there is nothing left, not a tree, not a board, just open Bay. He keeps repeating that they used to keep cows there, and his stunned grief is the emotional core of the chapter.
- Second half
In what book does a teen serve tea "with a smile sunk in concrete pilings"?
✓ Answer
Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
Louise carries in tea after the Captain has announced he is sending Caroline to music school in Baltimore. The image of her frozen smile captures her devastation as she pretends to be a polite hostess while her heart breaks.
- Near the end
In what book does a man kiss his wife's neck while his mother shouts Bible verses about adultery?
✓ Answer
Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
Grandma is reading a long Proverbs passage at full volume to torture her own daughter-in-law. The narrator's father walks in, calmly crosses to his wife, kisses her neck, and gently takes the Bible out of his mother's hands.
