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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Jake find under the manger in the barn where Mr. Shimerda's body is found?
(a) A gun
(b) Krajiek's ax
(c) Grandfather Burden's ax
(d) Money

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

4. What does Otto do annually on Christmas day?
(a) Cleans the horse stables
(b) Decorates the Christmas tree
(c) Writes to his mother
(d) Visits the Shimerdas

5. Who visits the Burdens on Christmas day?
(a) Mr. Shimerda
(b) Otto
(c) Antonia
(d) The Shimerda family

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Jim and his grandparents make Christmas presents for the Shimerdas instead of purchasing them?

2. What is Blind d'Arnault's talent?

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

4. Why does Anton Jelinek believe the Shimerdas are not concerned about having a priest perform Mr. Shimerda's funeral?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Jake and Ambrosch come to blows in Chapter 18?

2. How is Jim like the Shimerdas as they both travel to Nebraska?

3. How does the Hardings' household change when Mr. Harling comes home from work?

4. Retell the story about Lena being responsible for Antonia's feelings about the girl.

5. Describe Jim's encounter with the rattlesnake as he and Antonia return from Russian Peter's

6. How do the Shimerdas react when the Burdens bring them supplies during the cold winter?

7. How does Mrs. Shimerda act when she and Antonia visit the Burdens after the thaw? How does Jim respond to her?

8. What is significant about January 22 in this novel?

9. Describe Jim's first impressions of the Nebraska landscape. Why do you think he responds in this way?

10. Why do the Shimerdas have difficulty getting Mr. Shimerda buried? Where is he ultimately interred?

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