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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What 'helps' Ona and Jurgis furnish their home?
(a) The welfare department
(b) Advertisements
(c) The mortgage company
(d) Interior designers

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

3. Who does Ona want to marry?
(a) Antanas
(b) Jack
(c) Jurgis
(d) Stanislovas

4. What does Jurgis hope for Stanislovas to do?
(a) Go to school
(b) Help more around the house
(c) Find a girl
(d) Get a job

5. 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 they can get married
(d) So she can buy things

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the family of this novel originate from?

2. How long is their house to be rented for?

3. Why does Jurgis think the system of meatpacking is so efficient?

4. What is the reason Antanas can not find work?

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

(see the answer key)

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