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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. What does Antonia offer Jim when she meets him?
(a) Wild mushrooms
(b) Help on the farm
(c) Her ring
(d) Her friendship
2. Who does Antonia tell that Jim tried to kill Lena back in Bohemia?
(a) Wick Cutter
(b) Krajiek
(c) Mrs. Shimerda
(d) Ole Benson's wife
3. What does Antonia say was found in the pocket of the tramp who died in the thresher?
(a) A letter from his wife
(b) A suicide note
(c) A poem
(d) Money
4. Which of the following is not a quality that Jim believes the town girls possess?
(a) Physical strength
(b) Isolation
(c) Beauty
(d) Refinement
5. How many days pass before Mr. Shimerda's body is buried?
(a) 10
(b) 3
(c) 4
(d) 5
Short Answer Questions
1. Where in Black Hawk is Antonia hired to work?
2. Antonia confides to Jim that her father is _______________
3. Who sold the Shimerda family their home?
4. What does Mr. Shimerda ask Jim's grandmother to do?
5. Who teaches Yulka to read English?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the relationship between the Shimerdas and Krajiek
2. How do the Shimerdas react when the Burdens bring them supplies during the cold winter?
3. Describe Antonia's relationship with her father
4. What is significant about January 22 in this novel?
5. What is a rattlesnake cane? What is its importance for the Burdens?
6. What does Mr. Shimerda do in the Burdens' home on Christmas that surprises them? Why are they surprised by his action?
7. Describe Peter and Pavel
8. What confession does Pavel make to Mr. Shimerda on his death bed?
9. How does Mrs. Shimerda act when she and Antonia visit the Burdens after the thaw? How does Jim respond to her?
10. How does the Hardings' household change when Mr. Harling comes home from work?
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