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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapter 16 | Book 1: Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jim's grandmother warn him to watch for when he is in her garden?
(a) Poisonous plants
(b) Bees
(c) Moles
(d) Rattlesnakes

2. What does Mr. Shimerda promise to give Jim when he is older?
(a) His farm
(b) Antonia's hand in marriage
(c) His gun
(d) Fatherly advice

3. Who visits the Burdens on Christmas day?
(a) The Shimerda family
(b) Otto
(c) Mr. Shimerda
(d) Antonia

4. What gift do Jim's grandparents give him when he comes to live with them?
(a) A wagon
(b) A pony
(c) A bicycle
(d) A rattlesnake cane

5. Who performs Mr. Shimerda's funeral service?
(a) Otto Fuchs
(b) A priest
(c) The coroner
(d) Grandfather Burden and Otto Fuchs

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Pavel confess his unpleasant past in Russia?

2. What does Antonia tell Jim about her father when she and her mother come to visit the Burdens after the winter thaw?

3. Which of the Shimerda children is considered most important by his parents?

4. Why are Otto's fellow travelers suspicious of him when he escorts an immigrant woman to the U.S. to meet her husband?

5. To whom are Pavel and Peter indebted?

(see the answer key)

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