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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Ona want to get a job?
(a) So she can buy things
(b) So they can get married
(c) So she can pay off their house
(d) So she can have more children

2. What are men at the slaughterhouses dying of due to the weather?
(a) Fatigue
(b) Frostbite
(c) Sunstroke
(d) Dysentery

3. Who gets their job back, only to lose it again for speaking up for their rights?
(a) Jurgis
(b) Stanislovas
(c) Ona
(d) Marija

4. What kinds of cows are killed, which upsets Jurgis as he works?
(a) Pregnant cows
(b) Still alive cows
(c) Sleeping cows
(d) Defective cows

5. What is another word for 'consumption'?
(a) Influenza
(b) Beverages
(c) Alcoholism
(d) Tuberculosis

Short Answer Questions

1. The bosses at the slaughterhouses cheat the men by ________ their hours of work.

2. What happens to the unborn calves of the slaughtered cows?

3. What does the family find out about their home?

4. How do Ona and Jurgis pay for the furnishings they acquire?

5. Whose factory is suddenly shut down, leaving this character without work?

(see the answer key)

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