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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3: Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Jim's grandfather mend relations between the Shimerdas and the Burdens?
(a) He tells Jake he must apologize for hitting Ambrosch.
(b) He speaks to Mrs. Shimerda.
(c) He forgives Ambrosch for damaging the horse collar.
(d) He hires Ambrosch and Antonia to help him harvest.

2. How do the narrator and Jim become acquainted?
(a) They grew up in the same town.
(b) They meet on the train.
(c) The work for the same company in New York.
(d) They were both neighbors of Antonia.

3. Where does Jim stay when he is in Lincoln?
(a) With his grandparents
(b) With Gaston Cleric
(c) In a hotel
(d) In rooms he rents from an elderly couple

4. Where does Antonia consider going to work when the Harlings forbid her to attend the dances?
(a) For Wick Cutter
(b) In a neighboring town
(c) For the Burdens
(d) On her family's farm

5. What becomes of Peter when Pavel passes away?
(a) He also dies.
(b) He moves in with the Shimerdas.
(c) He returns to Russia.
(d) He goes to work for the railroad.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Mr. Shimerda's body buried?

2. Who does Jim's grandmother hire to help her work in the house during July?

3. Why are Otto's fellow travelers suspicious of him when he escorts an immigrant woman to the U.S. to meet her husband?

4. What gives Wick Cutter an advantage with the immigrant farmers?

5. How does Antonia react to the dances in town?

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