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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: Chapter 1 | Book 2: Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the Harling children helps his/her father with the family business?
(a) Frances
(b) Charley
(c) Sally
(d) Nina

2. Which of the following is not a topic of complaint by Mrs. Shimerda in Chapter 17?
(a) The cow Grandfather Burden sold her.
(b) Accusations against Ambrosch
(c) A broken ax.
(d) Mr. Shimerda's death

3. What does Jim tell the narrator of the introduction?
(a) He was secretly in love with Antonia.
(b) He plans to move back to Nebraska.
(c) He dislikes his wife.
(d) He has been writing down his memories of Antonia.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Antonia offer Jim when she meets him?

2. Which of the following is not a detail about Antonia that Mrs. Steavens shares with the Burdens?

3. Why do the Shimerdas remain involved with Krajiek?

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

5. What does Antonia tell Jim about her father when she and her mother come to visit the Burdens after the winter thaw?

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