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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapter 8 | Book 1: Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who accompanies Jim on his train trip to Nebraska in Chapter 1?
(a) Otto Fuchs
(b) His grandfather
(c) Jake Marpole
(d) Antonia

2. What act does Jim perform that makes him a hero in Antonia's eyes?
(a) He catches a prairie dog.
(b) He kills a rattlesnake.
(c) He teaches her to read.
(d) He rescues her brother.

3. What does Antonia offer Jim when she meets him?
(a) Her friendship
(b) Her ring
(c) Help on the farm
(d) Wild mushrooms

4. Why do Antonia and Jim travel to Russian Peter's in Chapter 7?
(a) To visit with he and Pavel.
(b) To borrow a spade
(c) To deliver a spade
(d) To show the Shimerda children the prairie dog houses.

5. What rumor about Pavel circulates in the community?
(a) He is an anarchist.
(b) He is an illegal immigrant.
(c) He is a fugitive from the law.
(d) He left his wife to come to the United States.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do the narrator and Jim become acquainted?

3. Antonia confides to Jim that her father is _______________

4. Who sold the Shimerda family their home?

5. What misfortune falls upon Pavel in Chapter 8?

(see the answer key)

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