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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where is the most diseased meat sent?
(a) To the dump
(b) To the workers
(c) To the sausage factory
(d) To the pickle rooms

3. Who is pregnant, as we find out in this chapter?
(a) Marija
(b) Elzbieta
(c) Anrata
(d) Ona

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

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

6. Who made the person in #81 turn to prostitution?
(a) Tamoszius
(b) Jurgis
(c) Jack
(d) Conner

7. Who finds Jurgis his first job?
(a) Antanas
(b) Jack
(c) Conner
(d) The delicatessen owner

8. What holiday does Jurgis call 'their' holiday?
(a) Pentecost
(b) Assumption
(c) Easter
(d) Christmas

9. What causes Jurgis and the rest of the family to become violently ill?
(a) The pollution
(b) The fumes of the fertilizer
(c) The food they got from a friend
(d) The brine in the pickling room

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

11. What does the house become infested with?
(a) Bugs
(b) Rats
(c) Worms
(d) Termites

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

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

14. Where does Jurgis return to get his job back?
(a) The fields
(b) The fertilizer mill
(c) Brown's
(d) The canning factory

15. What does Jurgis do to escape the horrors of his life?
(a) Lives by himself
(b) Gamble
(c) Go to the whorehouse
(d) Drink

Short Answer Questions

1. The bosses at the slaughterhouses cheat the men by ________ their hours of work.

2. What does Jurgis do to the answer to #82?

3. What does the answer to #86 realize while they are in jail?

4. Who has been pressured into prostituting herself?

5. What does Ona suddenly suffer from?

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