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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 Jim say he feels the most at home?
(a) In Black Hawk
(b) In the pastures
(c) At his grandparents' old farm
(d) At Antonia's farm

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

3. What does the phrase "Optima dies...prima fugit" mean?
(a) Beauty comes to small towns.
(b) The worst days are the first to flee.
(c) The best days are the first to flee.
(d) I shall be the first to bring the Muse to my country.

4. Where do Jim and Lena often go together in Lincoln?
(a) To Lena's dress shop
(b) To dinner
(c) To theatre shows
(d) On long walks

5. What does Wick Cutter do before leaving for Omaha that Grandmother Burden finds suspicious?
(a) He asks Antonia to stay with her family.
(b) He kisses Antonia.
(c) He tells Antonia he is leaving his wife.
(d) He places a box of silver and papers under Antonia's bed.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tiny make her fortune?

2. How does Gaston Cleric help Jim?

3. What does Jim tell the girls is evidence that the Spanish settled in Nebraska?

4. Why does Jim stop attending the dances at the Fireman's Hall?

5. To whom does Jim dedicate his speech?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jim think it is ironic that Antonia's marriage failed?

2. Describe Wick Cutter.

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

4. What events occur when Jim visits Antonia?

5. How does Cleric Gaston interpret Virgil's line "Primus ego in patriam mecum . . . deducam Musas", or, "for I shall be the first, if I live, to bring the Muse into my own country.?"

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

7. How does the novel come full circle at the end?

8. Describe Antonia's preparations for marriage.

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

10. Describe Gaston Cleric

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