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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapter 12 | Book 1: Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Jim think Antonia acts superior to him?
(a) She believes she is smarter than he is.
(b) She is older than he is.
(c) She is from a different culture than he is.
(d) She believes females are superior to males.

3. To whom are Pavel and Peter indebted?
(a) Krajiek
(b) Wick Cutter
(c) The Burdens
(d) The Shimerdas

4. How do the Shimerdas react to their difficult living conditions?
(a) They ask the Burdens to help them.
(b) They shut themselves off from the community.
(c) The complain constantly.
(d) They never complain.

5. What does Jim's grandmother warn him to watch for when he is in her garden?
(a) Poisonous plants
(b) Moles
(c) Rattlesnakes
(d) Bees

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What misfortune falls upon Pavel in Chapter 8?

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

4. Antonia confides to Jim that her father is _______________

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

(see the answer key)

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