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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 Ambrosch give Antonia when she leaves to marry Donovan?
(a) His blessing
(b) Nothing
(c) Family heirlooms
(d) Money

2. How does Jim characterize the woman who plays the character, Marguerite?
(a) As old and overly dramatic
(b) As romantic and sultry
(c) As young and beautiful
(d) As accurate and compelling

3. Where does Jim go after graduating from Harvard?
(a) Boston
(b) New York City
(c) Lincoln
(d) Black Hawk

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

5. How many years pass before Jim visits Antonia again?
(a) 20 years
(b) 50 years
(c) 10 years
(d) 2 years

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Antonia not ask Larry Donovan for a civil marriage?

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

3. How does Jim feel when swimming in the river?

4. Where does Jim stay when he is in Lincoln?

5. What became of Antonia's marriage to Larry Donovan?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who proposes to Lena? How does she respond?

2. How does Jim react to Antonia when he comes to visit her after many years?

3. What does Jim see on the wall of the photographer's studio? How does this affect him?

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

5. Describe Jim and Antonia's relationship after 20 years have passed

6. Describe Antonia's preparations for marriage.

7. Why does Jim believe he will never be a brilliant scholar?

8. Describe Larry Donovan from Jim's perspective.

9. Describe Wick Cutter.

10. How does dancing with Lena differ from dancing with Antonia in Jim's mind?

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