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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Antonia consider going to work when the Harlings forbid her to attend the dances?
(a) For Wick Cutter
(b) In a neighboring town
(c) On her family's farm
(d) For the Burdens

2. Which of the following is not a quality that Jim believes the town girls possess?
(a) Isolation
(b) Beauty
(c) Physical strength
(d) Refinement

3. Why does Jim come to live with his grandparents in the first chapter of the book?
(a) His parents want him to grow up on a farm.
(b) His parents are unable to care for him.
(c) His parents have divorced.
(d) His parents have passed away.

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

5. What does Jim's grandfather bring home for him after visiting the Shimerdas on Christmas?
(a) A ring
(b) A horse
(c) A Christmas tree
(d) A gift from Antonia

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Anton Jelinek's connection with the Shimerda family?

2. What impact do the dances in Black Hawk have on the townspeople?

3. Who accompanies Jim on his train trip to Nebraska in Chapter 1?

4. Who helps Ambrosch and Marek treat the horse with colic?

5. Whose visit to Black Hawk breaks up the monotony of the winter for Jim?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Jim like the Shimerdas as they both travel to Nebraska?

2. How does Mrs. Shimerda act when she and Antonia visit the Burdens after the thaw? How does Jim respond to her?

3. Why does Mrs. Shimerda ask Jim's grandfather to say a prayer during her husband's funeral?

4. What is significant about January 22 in this novel?

5. Compare and contrast the town and city girls (from Jim's point of view).

6. Why do the Shimerdas have difficulty getting Mr. Shimerda buried? Where is he ultimately interred?

7. Retell the story Antonia shares with Jim and the Harlings about the tramp and the thresher

8. What change occurs in Black Hawk in the Spring? How does this affect the people living there?

9. Does Antonia attend school? Why or why not?

10. What is a rattlesnake cane? What is its importance for the Burdens?

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