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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Jim tell the narrator of the introduction?
(a) He was secretly in love with Antonia.
(b) He plans to move back to Nebraska.
(c) He has been writing down his memories of Antonia.
(d) He dislikes his wife.

4. What do Jim and Jake go to pick up from Ambrosch in Chapter 18?
(a) A horse collar
(b) An ax
(c) A cow
(d) A wagon

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

6. Who accompanies Jim on his train trip to Nebraska in Chapter 1?
(a) His grandfather
(b) Otto Fuchs
(c) Jake Marpole
(d) Antonia

7. Who helps Ambrosch and Marek treat the horse with colic?
(a) Jim's grandfather
(b) Jim
(c) Krajiek
(d) Otto Fuchs

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

9. Where is Mr. Shimerda's body buried?
(a) In a cemetery
(b) In Bohemia
(c) On the Burdens' farm
(d) At the corner of the family's lot of land

10. Who sold the Shimerda family their home?
(a) The Burdens
(b) Krajiek
(c) Jim's grandparents
(d) Otto Fuchs

11. Who does Jim's grandfather believe killed Mr. Shimerda?
(a) Wick Cutter
(b) Krajiek
(c) Mr. Shimerda
(d) Ambrosch

12. What is Blind d'Arnault's talent?
(a) Playing the saxophone
(b) Singing
(c) Dancing
(d) Playing the piano

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

14. How does Antonia react to the dances in town?
(a) She regularly attends the dances.
(b) She is ambivalent towards the dances.
(c) She believes they are immoral.
(d) She rarely attends the dances.

15. Which of the Shimerda children is considered most important by his parents?
(a) Ambrosch
(b) Antonia
(c) Yulka
(d) Marek

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a detail about Antonia that Mrs. Steavens shares with the Burdens?

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

3. What does Jim say he enjoys most about his grandfather reading Christmas prayers?

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

5. Which of the Harling children helps his/her father with the family business?

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