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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapter 16 | Book 1: Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What misfortune falls upon Pavel in Chapter 8?
(a) He is injured on the job.
(b) He is robbed.
(c) He has nightmares.
(d) Peter moves to another farm.

2. What does Jim say he enjoys most about his grandfather reading Christmas prayers?
(a) The sound of his voice
(b) The memories of his parents that he invokes
(c) His choice of prayers
(d) The sense of spirituality that fills the room

3. Who sold the Shimerda family their home?
(a) The Burdens
(b) Krajiek
(c) Jim's grandparents
(d) Otto Fuchs

4. Who performs Mr. Shimerda's funeral service?
(a) Grandfather Burden and Otto Fuchs
(b) The coroner
(c) Otto Fuchs
(d) A priest

5. Where is Mr. Shimerda's body buried?
(a) At the corner of the family's lot of land
(b) In a cemetery
(c) In Bohemia
(d) On the Burdens' farm

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Shimerda promise to give Jim when he is older?

2. What nickname is Antonia given?

3. Why are Otto's fellow travelers suspicious of him when he escorts an immigrant woman to the U.S. to meet her husband?

4. Who visits the Burdens on Christmas day?

5. Antonia confides to Jim that her father is _______________

(see the answer key)

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