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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. 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 show the Shimerda children the prairie dog houses.
(d) To deliver a spade

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

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

4. What does Otto put on the Christmas tree that attracts everyone's attention?
(a) A photo of his mother
(b) Candles
(c) Ornaments from the Shimerdas
(d) Special ornaments from Austria

5. Who does Jim credit with planting sunflowers in Nebraska?
(a) The Shimerdas
(b) Mennonites
(c) Farmers
(d) Mormons

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the Shimerdas remain involved with Krajiek?

2. What one item must all of the Shimerdas share during the winter?

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

4. Antonia confides to Jim that her father is _______________

5. Why do Jim and his grandparents make Christmas presents for the Shimerdas instead of purchasing them?

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