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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapter 12 | Book 1: Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the Shimerdas react to their difficult living conditions?
(a) They shut themselves off from the community.
(b) The complain constantly.
(c) They ask the Burdens to help them.
(d) They never complain.

2. Who entertains Jim when he is forced to stay indoors because of illness?
(a) Grandfather Burden
(b) Yulka
(c) Otto Fuchs
(d) Antonia

3. What does Mr. Shimerda promise to give Jim when he is older?
(a) Fatherly advice
(b) His gun
(c) Antonia's hand in marriage
(d) His farm

4. What one item must all of the Shimerdas share during the winter?
(a) A dish
(b) A coat
(c) A blanket
(d) A bed

5. Which of the Shimerda children is considered most important by his parents?
(a) Marek
(b) Antonia
(c) Yulka
(d) Ambrosch

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Grandmother Burden not teach Antonia?

2. Which of the Shimerdas did not want to immigrate to the United States?

3. What does Jim tell the narrator of the introduction?

4. Why does Jim come to live with his grandparents in the first chapter of the book?

5. Why do Antonia and Jim travel to Russian Peter's in Chapter 7?

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