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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Jurgis decide to do in order to help himself and his understanding?
(a) Learn English
(b) Go to the library
(c) Leave the slaughterhouse
(d) Join a political party

3. What causes Jurgis and the rest of the family to become violently ill?
(a) The fumes of the fertilizer
(b) The food they got from a friend
(c) The pollution
(d) The brine in the pickling room

4. What holiday does Jurgis call 'their' holiday?
(a) Easter
(b) Pentecost
(c) Christmas
(d) Assumption

5. Why does Jurgis sell his vote?
(a) To buy his house
(b) To upset the system
(c) To get money to drink
(d) To feed his family

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ona want to get a job?

2. Who is also going to have to go to work, besides Ona?

3. Why weren't meats smoked?

4. Who wanted the wedding to be lavish?

5. What is the name of the collective group of businesses in Chicago?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jurgis decide to sign in order to give him more power in his new country?

2. Why does Jurgis beat up Conner?

3. What does the family learn they must also pay on their home?

4. What does Jurgis think about his act of beating up Conner?

5. Who is the narrator of the novel?

6. How do Ona and Jurgis furnish their 'new' home?

7. Which character could be described as young, strong, and full of optimism?

8. Why are the sausages the family eats not helping their nutrition?

9. What is the suspected cause of Elzbieta's child's death?

10. What causes Marija to lose her job again?

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