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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jim tell the narrator of the introduction?

2. How do the narrator and Jim become acquainted?

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

4. What event occurs that causes Mr. Harling to tell Antonia she cannot attend the dances?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the gifts that Jim and his grandparents give to the Shimerdas for Christmas.

2. Describe the relationship between the Shimerdas and Krajiek

3. Describe the Harlings.

4. What is a rattlesnake cane? What is its importance for the Burdens?

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

6. How does Antonia predict the winter will affect her family differently than Jim's?

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

8. What change in Jim's life occurs in the first chapter of Book 2? How does it affect him?

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

10. Describe Antonia's relationship with her father

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Select the most sympathetic and least sympathetic characters in the novel. Write an essay:

1) describing why you think each is sympathetic/not sympathetic

2) defend your position using details from the novel

Essay Topic 2

My Antonia is divided into four distinct books. Compare and contrast two of the books in this novel. Focus on:

1) the plot development

2) character development

3) themes presented in the book

Cite several specific examples from the novel to support your ideas.

Essay Topic 3

My Antonia takes place over a time span of nearly 50 years. Discuss the impact of time on the plot and characters in the novel. Cite several specific examples from the novel to support your ideas.

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