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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Antonia and Jim travel to Russian Peter's in Chapter 7?
(a) To deliver a spade
(b) To show the Shimerda children the prairie dog houses.
(c) To borrow a spade
(d) To visit with he and Pavel.

2. How do the narrator and Jim become acquainted?
(a) The work for the same company in New York.
(b) They meet on the train.
(c) They were both neighbors of Antonia.
(d) They grew up in the same town.

3. Why does Jake have to pay a fine?
(a) Because he punched Ambrosch
(b) Because he was involved in a bar fight
(c) Because he failed to pay taxes
(d) Because he broke a traffic law

4. What first strikes Jim about the location of his grandparents' home?
(a) There are many immigrants living in the area.
(b) There is land as far as the eye can see.
(c) The farm is extremely quiet.
(d) There are few trees in the area.

5. Which of the Harling children is Antonia's favorite?
(a) Nina
(b) Sally
(c) Charley
(d) Frances

6. How does Antonia show her affection for Charley?
(a) By kissing and tickling him
(b) By teaching him to read
(c) By playing with him more than Nina
(d) By making him his favorite treats

7. What does Mr. Shimerda ask Jim's grandmother to do?
(a) Teach Antonia to speak and read English
(b) Teach all of his children to speak and read English
(c) Agree to allow Antonia to marry Jim
(d) Help his wife set up their home

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

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

10. What does Antonia tell Jim about her father when she and her mother come to visit the Burdens after the winter thaw?
(a) Her father is not doing well.
(b) Her father used to be a violinist.
(c) Her father does not love her mother.
(d) Her father plans to kill himself.

11. Where does Jim believe Mr. Shimerda's spirit goes after he dies?
(a) Into Purgatory
(b) Back to Germany
(c) To live above the Burdens' home
(d) To Heaven

12. Who is suspected of killing Mr. Shimerda?
(a) Krajiek
(b) Ambrosch
(c) Wick Cutter
(d) Jim

13. What does Jim tell the narrator of the introduction?
(a) He has been writing down his memories of Antonia.
(b) He dislikes his wife.
(c) He plans to move back to Nebraska.
(d) He was secretly in love with Antonia.

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

15. What event is responsible for the lightened tone at the hotel?
(a) Jim and Antonia visit the hotel.
(b) The manager is out of town.
(c) Tiny is promoted to the manager position.
(d) The country girls are in town.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who helps Ambrosch and Marek treat the horse with colic?

3. What does Jim's grandmother warn him to watch for when he is in her garden?

4. Whose visit to Black Hawk breaks up the monotony of the winter for Jim?

5. Why do the Shimerdas remain involved with Krajiek?

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