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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jurgis filled with once he is done drinking?
(a) Pride
(b) A sense of obligation
(c) Worry
(d) Guilt

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

3. How does Jurgis feel when listening to this speech?
(a) Amused
(b) Speechless
(c) Depressed
(d) Scared

4. What is the name of the boarding house where the family first stayed and returns to?
(a) Scully's
(b) Adel's
(c) Francine's
(d) Aniele's

5. Who has cut their hand and can not work?
(a) Ona
(b) Marija
(c) Elzbieta
(d) Stanislovas

6. Who does Jurgis meet in this chapter?
(a) A communist protester
(b) A drunk young man
(c) Conner
(d) A preacher

7. How did Stanislovas die?
(a) Food poisoning
(b) Drowning
(c) Being eaten by rats
(d) Frostbite

8. What is the term socialists use for each other?
(a) Friend
(b) Working man
(c) Hopeful one
(d) Comrade

9. Where do the children get food?
(a) From Jurgis
(b) From begging
(c) The dump
(d) They don't

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

11. Who has complete faith in socialism at the end of the novel?
(a) Elzbieta
(b) Marija
(c) Conner
(d) Jurgis

12. Why is Jurgis turned down for the job in #111?
(a) He's been blacklisted
(b) He is a convict
(c) He is too old
(d) He has no experience

13. What does Jurgis eventually do that helps him earn good money?
(a) Starts a union of his own
(b) Helps with the harvest
(c) Cons other men
(d) Begs

14. What does Jurgis also become?
(a) A boss
(b) A lawman
(c) A homeowner
(d) A fugitive

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much further does Jurgis have to walk to get to the boarding house?

2. What is the family focused on in their life right now?

3. Why does the stranger want Jurgis to listen to the political meeting?

4. What do Jack and Jurgis do together once they're out of jail?

5. Who is Jack Duane?

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