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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. Who is advertising hot meals that ends up causing Jurgis to eventually drink?
(a) Conner
(b) The slaughterhouse
(c) Saloons
(d) Jack Duane

2. What does Jurgis hope for Stanislovas to do?
(a) Get a job
(b) Help more around the house
(c) Find a girl
(d) Go to school

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

4. What does Ona suddenly suffer from?
(a) Night terrors
(b) Paralysis
(c) Panic attacks
(d) Blindness

5. Where is the most diseased meat sent?
(a) To the sausage factory
(b) To the workers
(c) To the pickle rooms
(d) To the dump

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jurgis realize he can never fix?

2. What is/are the name(s) of Ona's child(ren)?

3. How do Ona and Jurgis pay for the furnishings they acquire?

4. Who ignores the carcasses that pass by unchecked on the conveyor belt?

5. What does Jurgis understand for the first time as part of the union?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ona suggest she do in order to marry Jurgis more quickly?

2. What happened to those who had a sore on their hand and they then got pickling brine on it?

3. Why does Jurgis beat up Conner?

4. Why is it not a big problem for Jurgis to find work, even though he can't speak English?

5. Why can't Jurgis' father find work?

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

7. Why does Jurgis decline to be in the union at first?

8. Who wanted Ona and Jurgis to have a lavish wedding, even though they would have been fine with something simpler?

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

10. Who is the narrator of the novel?

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