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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. What impact do the dances in Black Hawk have on the townspeople?
(a) The dance tent encourages immoral behavior.
(b) The community protests the dances.
(c) The dance tent becomes the social center of town.
(d) The community is ambivalent about the dances.

2. What does Mrs. Harling give Jim as a graduation present?
(a) Money
(b) A book
(c) A watch
(d) A silk umbrella

3. What does Antonia tell Jim about her father when she and her mother come to visit the Burdens after the winter thaw?
(a) Her father does not love her mother.
(b) Her father is not doing well.
(c) Her father plans to kill himself.
(d) Her father used to be a violinist.

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

5. What event is responsible for the lightened tone at the hotel?
(a) Jim and Antonia visit the hotel.
(b) The country girls are in town.
(c) The manager is out of town.
(d) Tiny is promoted to the manager position.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Blind d'Arnault's mother react to his blindness?

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

3. Who is the speaker at Jim's graduation?

4. Who does Jim's grandmother hire to help her work in the house during July?

5. Why is Ambrosch delighted when he hears Jake sold a pig in town?

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