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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Antonia say was found in the pocket of the tramp who died in the thresher?
(a) A poem
(b) A suicide note
(c) A letter from his wife
(d) Money

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

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

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

5. What event is responsible for the lightened tone at the hotel?
(a) The country girls are in town.
(b) The manager is out of town.
(c) Jim and Antonia visit the hotel.
(d) Tiny is promoted to the manager position.

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

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

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

9. Which of the Harling children helps his/her father with the family business?
(a) Sally
(b) Nina
(c) Frances
(d) Charley

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

11. Antonia confides to Jim that her father is _______________
(a) mentally ill.
(b) cruel and unforgiving.
(c) deeply sad.
(d) dangerous and unpredictable.

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

13. Why do the Shimerdas remain involved with Krajiek?
(a) They come from the same country.
(b) They look up to him.
(c) They trust him.
(d) They rely on him to teach them about the US.

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

15. Why do Antonia and Jim travel to Russian Peter's in Chapter 7?
(a) To deliver a spade
(b) To borrow a spade
(c) To visit with he and Pavel.
(d) To show the Shimerda children the prairie dog houses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Otto do annually on Christmas day?

2. Why does Mrs. Harling disapprove of Tiny Soderball?

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

4. Where does Antonia consider going to work when the Harlings forbid her to attend the dances?

5. What does Otto put on the Christmas tree that attracts everyone's attention?

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