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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. What does Jurgis do as Ona is dying?
(a) Takes her hand
(b) Pleads with God
(c) Shakes her
(d) Tries to revive her

2. What is Jurgis' sentence?
(a) A week
(b) Time served
(c) 30 days
(d) 10 days

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

4. Someone whispers to Jurgis as he falls asleep during another political meeting. What word does the stranger whisper?
(a) Friend
(b) Comrade
(c) American
(d) Hobo

5. What does Jurgis have to do to get money?
(a) Sell his things
(b) Work longer hours
(c) Beg
(d) Ask his boss for a raise

Short Answer Questions

1. In the next election, how does the socialist vote do?

2. What does the new friend do for Jurgis?

3. What does the new friend give Jurgis?

4. Who does Jurgis meet that floods him with memories?

5. How much money does Jurgis have in the bank at this time?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Jurgis goes back to Chicago for the summer, where does he find employment?

2. What happens when Jurgis goes back to the fertilizer mill?

3. Who is the visitor Jurgis gets in jail?

4. After the speech is over, what does Jurgis do?

5. Jurgis happens upon another political meeting. What is the topic this time?

6. Where does Jurgis next get a job at, that turns out to be a good position?

7. What is the senator talking about as Jurgis overhears a political meeting?

8. What happens when there is a strike at the stockyard where Jurgis is working?

9. What does Jurgis decide to do when he can not find any work?

10. Overcome with grief after Ona's death, what does Jurgis do to soothe his sorrows?

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