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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What barrier does not stand in the way of Jurgis getting a job?
(a) The language barrier
(b) His looks
(c) His inexperience
(d) The ethnic barrier

2. Whose factory is suddenly shut down, leaving this character without work?
(a) Ona
(b) Stanislovas
(c) Marija
(d) Jurgis

3. What does Ona give birth to?
(a) Twins
(b) A baby boy
(c) Triplets
(d) A baby girl

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

5. How old is Ona at her wedding?
(a) 30
(b) 21
(c) 25
(d) 16

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Marija's wages?

2. How do Ona and Jurgis pay for the furnishings they acquire?

3. What are men at the slaughterhouses dying of due to the weather?

4. Who is the leader of the Democratic party?

5. Who deserts the family and is never heard from again?

(see the answer key)

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