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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Jurgis go to look for work?
(a) The stockyards
(b) The farms
(c) The factories
(d) The train station

2. Why does Ona want to get a job?
(a) So she can pay off their house
(b) So she can have more children
(c) So she can buy things
(d) So they can get married

3. What does Jurgis think works against the American ideal of individuality?
(a) Assembly line work
(b) Stockyards
(c) Unions
(d) Bosses

4. The bosses at the slaughterhouses cheat the men by ________ their hours of work.
(a) Ignoring
(b) Eliminating all of
(c) Increasing
(d) Rounding down

5. What happens to the unborn calves of the slaughtered cows?
(a) They are taken away
(b) They are raised into adulthood
(c) They are killed too
(d) They are sold

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Ona want to marry?

2. What does the family find out about their home?

3. Who is also going to have to go to work, besides Ona?

4. What 'helps' Ona and Jurgis furnish their home?

5. What is another fee the family learns they need to pay on their home?

(see the answer key)

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