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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapter 8 | Book 1: Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What rumor about Pavel circulates in the community?
(a) He is an anarchist.
(b) He left his wife to come to the United States.
(c) He is an illegal immigrant.
(d) He is a fugitive from the law.

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

3. What does Jim tell the narrator of the introduction?
(a) He dislikes his wife.
(b) He was secretly in love with Antonia.
(c) He has been writing down his memories of Antonia.
(d) He plans to move back to Nebraska.

4. Who entertains Jim when he is forced to stay indoors because of illness?
(a) Yulka
(b) Otto Fuchs
(c) Grandfather Burden
(d) Antonia

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why do the Shimerdas remain involved with Krajiek?

3. What does Antonia offer Jim when she meets him?

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

5. Where does Jim live as an adult?

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