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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 upsetting news does Antonia learn in a letter from Larry Donovan prior to their marriage?
(a) He is not willing to marry her.
(b) They must move to Denver.
(c) He is in love with another woman.
(d) They must move to Lincoln.

2. What do Antonia and Jim's grandmother discover when they return to the Cutter home to pack up Antonia's belongings?
(a) Wick Cutter is burning papers.
(b) Antonia's belongings are missing.
(c) Wick Cutter's is dead.
(d) The house is in disarray.

3. Why does Jim stop attending the dances at the Fireman's Hall?
(a) He does not enjoy the dances.
(b) His grandmother believes the dances are disgraceful.
(c) Antonia asks him to stop attending the dances.
(d) He is embarrassed after kissing Antonia.

4. With whom is Wick Cutter constantly in conflict?
(a) Grandfather Burden
(b) His wife
(c) Krajiek
(d) Mrs. Shimerda

5. What does Jim plan on studying after graduating Harvard?
(a) Law
(b) History
(c) Literature
(d) Farming

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not something Jim notices about Antonia when he goes to visit her in this chapter?

2. What does Jim convince his grandparents to do for posterity?

3. What does Jim say he and Antonia will always share?

4. Where does Jim say he feels the most at home?

5. What play entrances and enthralls Jim?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize the story Rudolph tells about the Cutters.

2. Summarize the story of Antonia and Larry Donovan's failed attempt at marriage (as told by Widow Steavens).

3. Describe Jim's visit to Black Hawk in this chapter

4. What feelings does Antonia share with Jim as they wait for the others to arrive at the river? How does Jim reassure her?

5. What causes Jim to reinterpret sections of Virgil's Georgics? How does he see a particular passage differently?

6. How does Jim's grandmother react to Jim attending dances at the Fireman's Hall? How does Jim respond?

7. Describe Gaston Cleric

8. Describe Larry Donovan from Jim's perspective.

9. How does Jim mark his transition to manhood in this chapter?

10. Describe the changes in Tiny Soderball's life from the point that Jim last saw her to present

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