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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who begins to develop a cough like the one that killed Jurgis' father?
(a) Marija
(b) Ona
(c) Jurgis
(d) Antanas

2. Where does Jurgis have to go after his first day back at work?
(a) The store
(b) The doctor
(c) The midwife
(d) The bank

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

4. Who has had to give up her dream of marriage?
(a) Junita
(b) Marija
(c) Elzbieta
(d) Ona

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

6. What makes the family realize they will need to make more money?
(a) Their house's mortgage is also charged interest
(b) Jurgis loses his job
(c) Ona becomes pregnant
(d) A family member dies

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

8. What are men at the slaughterhouses dying of due to the weather?
(a) Fatigue
(b) Sunstroke
(c) Dysentery
(d) Frostbite

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

10. What is another name for Chicago?
(a) Depression Central
(b) Slaughter City
(c) Dirty Town
(d) Packingtown

11. How do Ona and Jurgis pay for the furnishings they acquire?
(a) They don't
(b) They include the cost in their mortgage
(c) They put them on layaway
(d) They rent them

12. Who has been pressured into prostituting herself?
(a) Their neighbor
(b) Ona
(c) Marija
(d) Elzbieta

13. What does Jurgis realize he can never fix?
(a) The world's injustices
(b) Ona's sense of well being
(c) Conner's attitude
(d) His life

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

15. How long has the family been in Packingtown at this point?
(a) A decade
(b) 5 years
(c) 2 and a half years
(d) 1 year

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kinds of cows are killed, which upsets Jurgis as he works?

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

4. Who is the violin player?

5. Why does Ona want to get a job?

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