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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4: Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the phrase "Optima dies...prima fugit" mean?
(a) The worst days are the first to flee.
(b) I shall be the first to bring the Muse to my country.
(c) The best days are the first to flee.
(d) Beauty comes to small towns.

2. What does Mr. Shimerda promise to give Jim when he is older?
(a) His farm
(b) Fatherly advice
(c) Antonia's hand in marriage
(d) His gun

3. What does Tiny often share with Lena?
(a) The wages she earns working at the hotel
(b) The gifts she receives from men staying at the hotel
(c) News of the old country
(d) The room she rents at the hotel

4. Where does Jim go after graduating from Harvard?
(a) New York City
(b) Black Hawk
(c) Lincoln
(d) Boston

5. How did Blind d'Arnault's mother react to his blindness?
(a) She was supportive of him.
(b) She was angry.
(c) She was ashamed.
(d) She helped him function as if he was sighted.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who teaches Yulka to read English?

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

3. What first strikes Jim about the location of his grandparents' home?

4. Antonia confides to Jim that her father is _______________

5. How does Jim's grandfather mend relations between the Shimerdas and the Burdens?

(see the answer key)

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