A good answer might be:

No. An ordinary jump instruction has its one jump target encoded as an unchanging part of the instruction. (like j someSpot).

The jr Instruction

The jr instruction returns control to the caller. It copies the contents of $ra into the PC: 

jr  $ra      # PC <― $ra

Usually you think of this as "jumping to the address in $ra."

To make the instruction more general, it can be used with any register, not just $ra. Like all jump and branch instructions, the jr instruction is followed by a branch delay.

The diagram shows the subroutine returning to the return address that was loaded into $ra by the jal instruction in the caller.

QUESTION 6:

Do we now have a mechanism that enables us to call the same subroutine from many points in a program?