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

2. Who performs Mr. Shimerda's funeral service?
(a) Grandfather Burden and Otto Fuchs
(b) Otto Fuchs
(c) The coroner
(d) A priest

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

4. What misfortune falls upon Pavel in Chapter 8?
(a) He has nightmares.
(b) He is robbed.
(c) Peter moves to another farm.
(d) He is injured on the job.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Shimerda promise to give Jim when he is older?

2. Who sold the Shimerda family their home?

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

4. What does Otto do annually on Christmas day?

5. Which of the Shimerdas did not want to immigrate to the United States?

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