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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How do Ona and Jurgis pay for the furnishings they acquire?
(a) They put them on layaway
(b) They don't
(c) They rent them
(d) They include the cost in their mortgage

3. Who made the person in #81 turn to prostitution?
(a) Tamoszius
(b) Jack
(c) Conner
(d) Jurgis

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

5. Who is the violin player?
(a) Jurgis
(b) Conner
(c) Tamoszius
(d) Jack

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the house become infested with?

3. Where does Jurgis return to get his job back?

4. Why does Jurgis sell his vote?

5. What is Marija's new job?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Elzbieta's factory do?

2. After Jonas deserts the family, what does the family have to do in order to bring in more money?

3. Why is it not a big problem for Jurgis to find work, even though he can't speak English?

4. What is one of the ways the slaughterhouse bosses cheat the men out of money?

5. What begins to happen to Ona in this chapter?

6. Why is Stanislovas afraid to go out into the snow?

7. What does Jurgis decide to sign in order to give him more power in his new country?

8. What does Jurgis think about his act of beating up Conner?

9. Who is the narrator of the novel?

10. How do Ona and Jurgis furnish their 'new' home?

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