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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What keeps Jim from visiting Antonia?
(a) Preoccupation with his career
(b) Fear that she will reject him
(c) Fear at seeing her changed
(d) His wife

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

4. What possession does Russian Peter value over all others?
(a) His plough
(b) His cow
(c) His home
(d) His horse

5. What does Antonia tell Jim about her father when she and her mother come to visit the Burdens after the winter thaw?
(a) Her father used to be a violinist.
(b) Her father plans to kill himself.
(c) Her father does not love her mother.
(d) Her father is not doing well.

Short Answer Questions

1. Antonia confides to Jim that her father is _______________

2. What do the Shimerdas give the Burdens in exchange for the goods they bring during the winter?

3. What misfortune falls upon Pavel in Chapter 8?

4. What does Mr. Shimerda ask Jim's grandmother to do?

5. What do Antonia and Jim's grandmother discover when they return to the Cutter home to pack up Antonia's belongings?

(see the answer key)

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