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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 Antonia offer Jim when she meets him?
(a) Help on the farm
(b) Wild mushrooms
(c) Her ring
(d) Her friendship

2. To whom does Pavel confess his unpleasant past in Russia?
(a) Jim
(b) Mr. Shimerda
(c) Otto Fuchs
(d) Pavel

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

4. Why are Otto's fellow travelers suspicious of him when he escorts an immigrant woman to the U.S. to meet her husband?
(a) He appears to be in love with the woman.
(b) He never leaves the woman's side.
(c) The woman gives birth to triplets.
(d) The woman leaves during the trip.

5. Which of the Shimerdas did not want to immigrate to the United States?
(a) Ambrosch
(b) Antonia
(c) Mr. Shimerda
(d) Mrs. Shimerda

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following does NOT characterize Jim's grandparents?

3. What misfortune falls upon Pavel in Chapter 8?

4. What becomes of Peter when Pavel passes away?

5. What does Mr. Shimerda ask Jim's grandmother to do?

(see the answer key)

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