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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is working at the sausage factory?
(a) Jurgis
(b) Marija
(c) Ona
(d) Elzbieta

2. Who is the leader of the band at the wedding reception?
(a) Eric
(b) Tamoszius
(c) Jurgis
(d) Antanas

3. Who has been pressured into prostituting herself?
(a) Their neighbor
(b) Ona
(c) Elzbieta
(d) Marija

4. Who is also going to have to go to work, besides Ona?
(a) Antanas
(b) Jack
(c) Stanislovas
(d) Marija

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

6. Where is the most diseased meat sent?
(a) To the sausage factory
(b) To the dump
(c) To the pickle rooms
(d) To the workers

7. Whose factory is suddenly shut down, leaving this character without work?
(a) Jurgis
(b) Marija
(c) Stanislovas
(d) Ona

8. Why does Jurgis think the system of meatpacking is so efficient?
(a) Because it uses every part of the pig
(b) Because it is so fast
(c) Because of the workers
(d) Because of the machines

9. Where does Jurgis return to get his job back?
(a) The canning factory
(b) Brown's
(c) The fields
(d) The fertilizer mill

10. What does Jurgis feel confident the family can buy now that people have found jobs?
(a) A new couch
(b) A chair
(c) A car
(d) A house

11. What causes Ona and Jurgis to be upset after the wedding?
(a) They had to go to work
(b) The debt they accrued
(c) They had second thoughts
(d) They were't going on a honeymoon

12. What is another name for Chicago?
(a) Depression Central
(b) Packingtown
(c) Slaughter City
(d) Dirty Town

13. How old is Ona at her wedding?
(a) 16
(b) 21
(c) 25
(d) 30

14. What 'helps' Ona and Jurgis furnish their home?
(a) The welfare department
(b) Advertisements
(c) Interior designers
(d) The mortgage company

15. What is the name of the collective group of businesses in Chicago?
(a) The Beef Trust
(b) Packing Central
(c) Cow Palace
(d) The Beef Headquarters

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jurgis get his next job?

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

3. What happens to Marija's wages?

4. Who is pregnant, as we find out in this chapter?

5. What does Jurgis understand for the first time as part of the union?

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