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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 does Jurgis do with the money the children bring home?
(a) Tells them to save it
(b) Buys whiskey
(c) Buys a prostitute
(d) Gambles

2. Where does Jurgis get a job?
(a) A mine
(b) A hotel
(c) A bank
(d) A packing yard

3. What does Jurgis do to sleep in a warm place?
(a) Stays with a friend
(b) Fights in order to get arrested
(c) Breaks into homes
(d) Begs well off people for help

4. Who throws Jurgis out of the home?
(a) The butler
(b) The friend
(c) The owner
(d) A police officer

5. What does Jurgis have to do to get money?
(a) Ask his boss for a raise
(b) Sell his things
(c) Work longer hours
(d) Beg

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Jurgis hear screaming when he reaches the boarding house?

2. How does Jurgis feel when listening to this speech?

3. How much money does Jurgis have in the bank at this time?

4. Whose house do the new friend and Jurgis go to?

5. When Jurgis is at his court date, who does not come to see him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Jurgis released from prison later than he thought would be?

2. What is the impassioned speech actually talking about in this chapter?

3. What is the senator talking about as Jurgis overhears a political meeting?

4. What happens when Jurgis goes back to the fertilizer mill?

5. How does Jurgis response to the news of Antanas' death?

6. What does Jurgis decide to do when he can not find any work?

7. What happens when there is a strike at the stockyard where Jurgis is working?

8. What caused little Antanas' death?

9. How is the midwife described to the reader?

10. Where does the drunk young man take Jurgis?

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