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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kinds of cows are killed, which upsets Jurgis as he works?
(a) Pregnant cows
(b) Still alive cows
(c) Sleeping cows
(d) Defective cows

3. What is the name of the place where the pigs are killed?
(a) The assembly line
(b) The killing room
(c) The pickling room
(d) The killing floor

4. What does the person in #83 threaten to do if the character does not agree to prostitute herself?
(a) Blacklist her
(b) Fire the entire family
(c) Tell her husband
(d) Murder her

5. What is used in the sausages at the factory?
(a) Beans
(b) Spoiled hams
(c) Bread
(d) Potato flour

6. What does the answer to #86 realize while they are in jail?
(a) The jail is better than their house
(b) They can't remember what they've done
(c) They will lose their job
(d) They are alone

7. Who is also going to have to go to work, besides Ona?
(a) Antanas
(b) Jack
(c) Stanislovas
(d) Marija

8. What is the reason Antanas can not find work?
(a) He can't speak English
(b) He isn't a strong man
(c) He complains too often
(d) He is considered to be too old

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

10. Why does Jurgis think the system of meatpacking is so efficient?
(a) Because of the workers
(b) Because of the machines
(c) Because it is so fast
(d) Because it uses every part of the pig

11. What does Jurgis do to the answer to #82?
(a) He kills him
(b) He beats him up
(c) He talks with him
(d) He ignores him

12. What does Jurgis feel confident the family can buy now that people have found jobs?
(a) A car
(b) A new couch
(c) A house
(d) A chair

13. Who ignores the carcasses that pass by unchecked on the conveyor belt?
(a) The government inspector
(b) Ona
(c) Jurgis
(d) The women

14. What is Marija's job?
(a) Killing pigs
(b) Sewing clothes
(c) Making sausages
(d) Painting cans

15. Who is the violin player?
(a) Jack
(b) Conner
(c) Tamoszius
(d) Jurgis

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jurgis get his job back in the first place?

2. Who is the character in charge of the wedding?

3. What is another name for Chicago?

4. Where does Jurgis wait instead of going in to meet his boss?

5. Who gets their job back, only to lose it again for speaking up for their rights?

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