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

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

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

4. Who is the leader of the Democratic party?
(a) Jurgis
(b) Conner
(c) Thompson
(d) Mike Scully

5. Where does Jurgis have to go after his first day back at work?
(a) The bank
(b) The doctor
(c) The midwife
(d) The store

Short Answer Questions

1. What holiday does Jurgis call 'their' holiday?

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

3. Where does Jurgis go to look for work?

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

5. Where is the most diseased meat sent?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Jurgis overcome with worry over?

2. Who is the narrator of the novel?

3. What causes Marija to lose her job again?

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

5. What is the Lithuanian family in the first chapter traveling to?

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

7. Why are the sausages the family eats not helping their nutrition?

8. Who does Marija fall in love with?

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

10. Why does Jurgis decline to be in the union at first?

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