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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. 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

2. What does Jim convince his grandparents to do for posterity?
(a) Have their picture taken
(b) Record their family stories
(c) Write their wills
(d) Take his picture

3. What does Wick Cutter do before leaving for Omaha that Grandmother Burden finds suspicious?
(a) He places a box of silver and papers under Antonia's bed.
(b) He asks Antonia to stay with her family.
(c) He kisses Antonia.
(d) He tells Antonia he is leaving his wife.

4. Where does Tiny open her hotel?
(a) San Francisco
(b) Salt Lake City
(c) Black Hawk
(d) Alaska

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Wick Cutter do to trick his wife?

2. Who proposes to Lena several times?

3. How does Jim feel when swimming in the river?

4. What does Mrs. Harling give Jim as a graduation present?

5. How does Jim characterize the woman who plays the character, Marguerite?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jim mark his transition to manhood in this chapter?

2. What causes Jim to reinterpret sections of Virgil's Georgics? How does he see a particular passage differently?

3. Describe Wick Cutter.

4. Describe Cuzak's life story as he tells it to Jim

5. What is symbolic about Jim and Antonia talking at Mr. Shimerda's grave site?

6. How does the novel come full circle at the end?

7. How does Jim describe the experience of going to the theatre?

8. Why does Jim think it is ironic that Antonia's marriage failed?

9. What does Jim tell the group of girls to convince them that Spaniards settled in Nebraska?

10. How does Jim react to Antonia when he comes to visit her after many years?

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