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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Antonia react when Jim kisses her?
(a) She becomes angry.
(b) She is confused.
(c) She is uncomfortable.
(d) She is delighted.

2. Where do Antonia and Jim walk to during his visit to the Shimerda farm?
(a) The Burdens' old farm
(b) The spot where Jim killed the rattlesnake
(c) Mr. Shimerda's grave site
(d) The river

3. Who does Cuzak credit with the success of their farm?
(a) His children
(b) Himself
(c) Ambrosch
(d) Antonia

4. What does Jim romanticize at the end of the novel?
(a) The city
(b) Antonia
(c) The farm land
(d) His past

5. What does Jim call the road leading to his grandparents' farm?
(a) The Road to the Country
(b) The Road to Peace
(c) The Road to Destiny
(d) The Road to the Future

6. Who does JIm befriend while staying in Lincoln?
(a) Gaston Cleric
(b) Otto Fuchs
(c) Russian Peter
(d) Jake

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

8. How does Tiny make her fortune?
(a) She marries a rich man.
(b) Her hotel is wildly successful.
(c) She inherits it from her parents.
(d) A patron at her hotel deeds his fortune to her.

9. Who does Tiny convince to move to San Francisco with her?
(a) Jim
(b) Antonia
(c) Lena
(d) Yulka

10. What does Jim tell the Polish violin teacher his intentions are with Lena?
(a) Business-related
(b) He has no intentions.
(c) Friendship
(d) Marriage

11. Why has Gaston Cleric been sent West?
(a) To attend a university
(b) To recover from a health issue
(c) To study Greek
(d) To start a new life

12. To whom is Wick Cutter particularly nice?
(a) His wife
(b) Krajiek
(c) Mrs. Harling
(d) Jim's grandmother

13. What play entrances and enthralls Jim?
(a) Camille
(b) Ovid
(c) Georgics
(d) Marguerite

14. What character in "Camille" does Jim consider most sympathetic?
(a) Marguerite
(b) Virgil
(c) Armand
(d) Camille

15. According to Mrs. Steavens, why did Antonia come to her home each evening before getting married?
(a) To sew for her marriage
(b) To earn extra money
(c) To ask for marital advice
(d) To plan her wedding

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jim find as an unusual trait in Cuzak?

2. What does Jim plan on studying after graduating Harvard?

3. Why does Antonia not ask Larry Donovan for a civil marriage?

4. Who appears at Jim's door as he is contemplating Virgil's words?

5. What does Jim vow to Antonia before he leaves the farm?

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