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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the Shimerda children is considered most important by his parents?
(a) Antonia
(b) Marek
(c) Yulka
(d) Ambrosch

2. What does Mr. Shimerda promise to give Jim when he is older?
(a) Fatherly advice
(b) His farm
(c) Antonia's hand in marriage
(d) His gun

3. Why do Antonia and Jim travel to Russian Peter's in Chapter 7?
(a) To show the Shimerda children the prairie dog houses.
(b) To borrow a spade
(c) To deliver a spade
(d) To visit with he and Pavel.

4. Why does Jim stop attending the dances at the Fireman's Hall?
(a) He is embarrassed after kissing Antonia.
(b) He does not enjoy the dances.
(c) His grandmother believes the dances are disgraceful.
(d) Antonia asks him to stop attending the dances.

5. Who helps Ambrosch and Marek treat the horse with colic?
(a) Otto Fuchs
(b) Jim's grandfather
(c) Jim
(d) Krajiek

Short Answer Questions

1. What impact do the dances in Black Hawk have on the townspeople?

2. Why does Jim think Antonia acts superior to him?

3. What event is responsible for the lightened tone at the hotel?

4. Why does Jake have to pay a fine?

5. Whose visit to Black Hawk breaks up the monotony of the winter for Jim?

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