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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the family find out about their home?
(a) It's been sold to someone else too
(b) It's not insulated
(c) It's going to be demolished
(d) It's not new

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

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

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

7. Who wanted the wedding to be lavish?
(a) Elzbieta
(b) Stanislovas
(c) Ona
(d) Jurgis

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

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

10. What is Marija's new job?
(a) Secretary
(b) Painting cans
(c) Sewing buttons
(d) Beef trimmer

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

12. Who is working at the sausage factory?
(a) Elzbieta
(b) Jurgis
(c) Marija
(d) Ona

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

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

15. Who tries to convince Jurgis Ona is fine?
(a) Stanislovas
(b) Marija
(c) Ona
(d) Elzbieta

Short Answer Questions

1. What is doctored with Borax to give it a certain flavor?

2. Where is the wedding reception being held?

3. Who begins to develop a cough like the one that killed Jurgis' father?

4. Why does Ona want to get a job?

5. What barrier does not stand in the way of Jurgis getting a job?

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