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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Shimerda ask Jim's grandmother to do?
(a) Help his wife set up their home
(b) Teach Antonia to speak and read English
(c) Agree to allow Antonia to marry Jim
(d) Teach all of his children to speak and read English

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

3. What do the Shimerdas give the Burdens in exchange for the goods they bring during the winter?
(a) Money
(b) Nothing
(c) Dried mushrooms
(d) A promise of repayment

4. Where in Black Hawk is Antonia hired to work?
(a) The Harlings' home
(b) The Burdens' home
(c) The Boy's Home Hotel
(d) At the school

5. What impact do the dances in Black Hawk have on the townspeople?
(a) The community is ambivalent about the dances.
(b) The dance tent becomes the social center of town.
(c) The community protests the dances.
(d) The dance tent encourages immoral behavior.

6. Which of the following does NOT characterize Jim's grandparents?
(a) Strong
(b) Kind
(c) Stern
(d) Orderly

7. Who sponsors the dance tent in Black Hawk?
(a) The Burdens
(b) Wick Cutter
(c) The Vannis
(d) The Harlings

8. What gift do Jim's grandparents give him when he comes to live with them?
(a) A bicycle
(b) A wagon
(c) A pony
(d) A rattlesnake cane

9. Which of the following is not a quality that Jim believes the town girls possess?
(a) Isolation
(b) Refinement
(c) Physical strength
(d) Beauty

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

11. Why does Jake have to pay a fine?
(a) Because he broke a traffic law
(b) Because he punched Ambrosch
(c) Because he was involved in a bar fight
(d) Because he failed to pay taxes

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

13. What does Antonia offer Jim when she meets him?
(a) Wild mushrooms
(b) Her ring
(c) Help on the farm
(d) Her friendship

14. How does Antonia show her affection for Charley?
(a) By making him his favorite treats
(b) By playing with him more than Nina
(c) By kissing and tickling him
(d) By teaching him to read

15. 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. Why does Lena Lingard's presence at the Harlings' home make Antonia uncomfortable?

2. What reputation does the Boys' Home Hotel have?

3. Why does Jim think Antonia acts superior to him?

4. Who is suspected of killing Mr. Shimerda?

5. Why do the Shimerdas remain involved with Krajiek?

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