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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapter 16 | Book 1: Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. Where is Mr. Shimerda's body buried?
(a) At the corner of the family's lot of land
(b) In Bohemia
(c) On the Burdens' farm
(d) In a cemetery

3. Antonia confides to Jim that her father is _______________
(a) deeply sad.
(b) dangerous and unpredictable.
(c) mentally ill.
(d) cruel and unforgiving.

4. What does Mr. Shimerda ask Jim's grandmother to do?
(a) Teach all of his children to speak and read English
(b) Help his wife set up their home
(c) Agree to allow Antonia to marry Jim
(d) Teach Antonia to speak and read English

5. Who sold the Shimerda family their home?
(a) Jim's grandparents
(b) Krajiek
(c) The Burdens
(d) Otto Fuchs

Short Answer Questions

1. What gift do Jim's grandparents give him when he comes to live with them?

2. What act does Jim perform that makes him a hero in Antonia's eyes?

3. How many days pass before Mr. Shimerda's body is buried?

4. What does Antonia tell Jim about her father when she and her mother come to visit the Burdens after the winter thaw?

5. What does Jim say he enjoys most about his grandfather reading Christmas prayers?

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