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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapter 12 | Book 1: Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What possession does Russian Peter value over all others?
(a) His cow
(b) His horse
(c) His plough
(d) His home

2. What act does Jim perform that makes him a hero in Antonia's eyes?
(a) He kills a rattlesnake.
(b) He teaches her to read.
(c) He catches a prairie dog.
(d) He rescues her brother.

3. Who entertains Jim when he is forced to stay indoors because of illness?
(a) Grandfather Burden
(b) Antonia
(c) Otto Fuchs
(d) Yulka

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

5. What rumor about Pavel circulates in the community?
(a) He is an illegal immigrant.
(b) He is a fugitive from the law.
(c) He is an anarchist.
(d) He left his wife to come to the United States.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Grandmother Burden not teach Antonia?

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

3. What does Mr. Shimerda ask Jim's grandmother to do?

4. How do the Shimerdas react to their difficult living conditions?

5. What does Jim say he enjoys most about his grandfather reading Christmas prayers?

(see the answer key)

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