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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the other name for a wedding reception, and is traditional for the characters in this story?
(a) Wanneid
(b) Vassail
(c) Veselija
(d) Rehaja

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

3. Who deserts the family and is never heard from again?
(a) Stanislovas
(b) Elzbieta
(c) Ona
(d) Jonas

4. What causes Jurgis and the rest of the family to become violently ill?
(a) The pollution
(b) The brine in the pickling room
(c) The food they got from a friend
(d) The fumes of the fertilizer

5. What does Jurgis realize he can never fix?
(a) Ona's sense of well being
(b) Conner's attitude
(c) His life
(d) The world's injustices

6. What barrier does not stand in the way of Jurgis getting a job?
(a) The language barrier
(b) His looks
(c) The ethnic barrier
(d) His inexperience

7. Who does Ona want to marry?
(a) Antanas
(b) Jack
(c) Jurgis
(d) Stanislovas

8. Who ignores the carcasses that pass by unchecked on the conveyor belt?
(a) Jurgis
(b) Ona
(c) The women
(d) The government inspector

9. What does the person in #83 threaten to do if the character does not agree to prostitute herself?
(a) Tell her husband
(b) Blacklist her
(c) Murder her
(d) Fire the entire family

10. What does Jurgis hope for Stanislovas to do?
(a) Get a job
(b) Help more around the house
(c) Find a girl
(d) Go to school

11. Why does Jurgis sell his vote?
(a) To upset the system
(b) To get money to drink
(c) To buy his house
(d) To feed his family

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

13. How long does Jurgis have to be out of work?
(a) A few days
(b) At least a month
(c) A day
(d) He doesn't

14. What is Marija's new job?
(a) Beef trimmer
(b) Painting cans
(c) Sewing buttons
(d) Secretary

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What 'helps' Ona and Jurgis furnish their home?

3. What is used in the sausages at the factory?

4. Who is working at the sausage factory?

5. What does the answer to #86 realize while they are in jail?

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