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

2. What does Jurgis do after the speech?
(a) Beats up the man next to him
(b) Leaves
(c) Tries to find a job
(d) Walks up to the speaker

3. 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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jurgis do once he is far away from the city?

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

3. What does Jurgis do with the money the children bring home?

4. How much does Jurgis give Stanislovas to help the family?

5. Where does Jurgis go after being in the country?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jurgis have complete faith in by the end of the story?

2. What does Jurgis do as soon as he gets his new job?

3. Where does the drunk young man take Jurgis?

4. Why doesn't Ona come to the courtroom during Jurgis' sentencing?

5. How far away is Jurgis' new job?

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

7. What caused little Antanas' death?

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

9. How is the midwife described to the reader?

10. When Jurgis gets out of the hospital, what does he do?

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