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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who falls in love with the violin player?
(a) Marija
(b) Antanas
(c) Ona
(d) Jurgis

3. Who is the leader of the band at the wedding reception?
(a) Jurgis
(b) Eric
(c) Antanas
(d) Tamoszius

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. Who is the leader of the Democratic party?
(a) Mike Scully
(b) Conner
(c) Jurgis
(d) Thompson

13. What happened to the man who was in Jurgis' job before?
(a) He was fired
(b) He was smashed
(c) He threatened the boss
(d) He disappeared

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

15. What is the other name for a wedding reception, and is traditional for the characters in this story?
(a) Vassail
(b) Rehaja
(c) Wanneid
(d) Veselija

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another name for Chicago?

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

3. What freezes solid in the killing rooms because there is no heat in the slaughterhouse?

4. Where does Jurgis get his next job?

5. What does Ona suddenly suffer from?

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