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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job does Jurgis find with the help of friend he made in the union?
(a) Boss
(b) Salesman
(c) Harvest works
(d) Train conductor

2. Where are the children coming home from?
(a) School
(b) The slaughterhouse
(c) Selling papers
(d) The dump

3. What does the new friend give Jurgis?
(a) A plate of leftovers
(b) A bottle of milk
(c) $100
(d) A blanket

4. What is socialism described as in this chapter?
(a) Common sense
(b) Evil
(c) The only way
(d) A fit for anyone

5. Who is Jurgis directed to talk to?
(a) Orlea
(b) Ostrinski
(c) Tamola
(d) Ontrovena

6. Who is a lousy beggar?
(a) Mark
(b) Jurgis
(c) Jack
(d) Stanislovas

7. Why does the stranger want Jurgis to listen to the political meeting?
(a) He will get food in return
(b) He thinks it's rude if Jurgis sleeps
(c) The stranger is related to the speaker
(d) He says Jurgis might learn something

8. What does Jurgis tell the person in #175 they can now do?
(a) Be partners again
(b) Quit their job
(c) Go to hell
(d) Live with him

9. Who does Jurgis go to once he gets his new job?
(a) Conner
(b) Elzbieta
(c) Marija
(d) Jack

10. What does Jurgis find out Marija is doing?
(a) Getting married
(b) Prostituting herself
(c) Leaving the United States
(d) Dying

11. When Jurgis is at his court date, who does not come to see him?
(a) Elzbieta
(b) One of his children
(c) Ona
(d) Stanislovas

12. How did Jurgis' son die?
(a) An accident at work
(b) Fell off a sidewalk and drowned
(c) Eating a bad sausage
(d) An infected cut

13. What does Jurgis try to convert the family to?
(a) Capitalism
(b) Democratic thinking
(c) Republican thinking
(d) Socialism

14. Where does Jurgis stay for a long time, leaving him alone and penniless at the end?
(a) A hospital
(b) The streets
(c) A gambling hall
(d) A boarding house

15. Who does Jurgis ask for another job?
(a) Conner
(b) Scully
(c) Elzbieta
(d) Marija

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the children get food?

2. What happens to cause Jurgis to lose his job?

3. What job does Jurgis get when he goes to the place in #127?

4. What is the name of the boarding house where the family first stayed and returns to?

5. Who does this person think Packingtown should be in the hands of?

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