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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is Marija's new job?
(a) Sewing buttons
(b) Secretary
(c) Beef trimmer
(d) Painting cans
2. Why does Jurgis think the system of meatpacking is so efficient?
(a) Because it uses every part of the pig
(b) Because of the machines
(c) Because of the workers
(d) Because it is so fast
3. Who is the character in charge of the wedding?
(a) Ona
(b) Stanislovas
(c) Marija
(d) Elzbieta
4. Where is the most diseased meat sent?
(a) To the sausage factory
(b) To the dump
(c) To the pickle rooms
(d) To the workers
5. What happened to the boy Stanislovas with the broken off ears?
(a) Disease
(b) Work injury
(c) Frostbite
(d) Genetic defect
6. Where does the family of this novel originate from?
(a) Armenia
(b) The United States
(c) Russia
(d) Lithuania
7. What causes Jurgis and the rest of the family to become violently ill?
(a) The pollution
(b) The brine in the pickling room
(c) The food they got from a friend
(d) The fumes of the fertilizer
8. Who tries to convince Jurgis Ona is fine?
(a) Elzbieta
(b) Ona
(c) Marija
(d) Stanislovas
9. What does Jurgis hope for Stanislovas to do?
(a) Help more around the house
(b) Get a job
(c) Find a girl
(d) Go to school
10. Who is also going to have to go to work, besides Ona?
(a) Jack
(b) Antanas
(c) Stanislovas
(d) Marija
11. Who has a child that dies immediately at the start of this chapter?
(a) Marija
(b) Elzbieta
(c) Ona
(d) Jurgis
12. The bosses at the slaughterhouses cheat the men by ________ their hours of work.
(a) Eliminating all of
(b) Rounding down
(c) Increasing
(d) Ignoring
13. Where is the wedding reception being held?
(a) Russia dining hall
(b) Chicago stockyards
(c) Lithuania
(d) At the church
14. What does Jurgis already know about Ona?
(a) That she is too good for him
(b) That she has left him
(c) That she will die
(d) That she is not the woman he loves
15. What does the person in #83 threaten to do if the character does not agree to prostitute herself?
(a) Fire the entire family
(b) Murder her
(c) Tell her husband
(d) Blacklist her
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the house become infested with?
2. What is another fee the family learns they need to pay on their home?
3. What is the name of the collective group of businesses in Chicago?
4. What is Marija's job?
5. Who ignores the carcasses that pass by unchecked on the conveyor belt?
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