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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. How do the Shimerdas react to their difficult living conditions?
(a) They ask the Burdens to help them.
(b) They shut themselves off from the community.
(c) The complain constantly.
(d) They never complain.

2. What does Antonia tell Jim about her father when she and her mother come to visit the Burdens after the winter thaw?
(a) Her father does not love her mother.
(b) Her father plans to kill himself.
(c) Her father is not doing well.
(d) Her father used to be a violinist.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What act does Jim perform that makes him a hero in Antonia's eyes?

2. Who does Jim often run into when he is in downtown Black Hawk?

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

4. What do Jim and Jake go to pick up from Ambrosch in Chapter 18?

5. How many days pass before Mr. Shimerda's body is buried?

Short Essay Questions

1. Does Antonia attend school? Why or why not?

2. What confession does Pavel make to Mr. Shimerda on his death bed?

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

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

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

6. Describe Jim's experiences when he is housebound due to illness

7. Compare and contrast the town and city girls (from Jim's point of view).

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

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

10. Describe Antonia's relationship with her father

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