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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Jurgis go to look for work?
(a) The train station
(b) The farms
(c) The factories
(d) The stockyards

2. What does the family find out about their home?
(a) It's not insulated
(b) It's been sold to someone else too
(c) It's going to be demolished
(d) It's not new

3. Who wanted the wedding to be lavish?
(a) Ona
(b) Stanislovas
(c) Jurgis
(d) Elzbieta

4. What is the name of the place where the pigs are killed?
(a) The pickling room
(b) The killing room
(c) The killing floor
(d) The assembly line

5. The bosses at the slaughterhouses cheat the men by ________ their hours of work.
(a) Rounding down
(b) Eliminating all of
(c) Increasing
(d) Ignoring

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jurgis think works against the American ideal of individuality?

2. Who falls in love with the violin player?

3. Where does the family of this novel originate from?

4. What happened to the boy Stanislovas with the broken off ears?

5. What is Marija's job?

(see the answer key)

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