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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is another word for 'consumption'?
(a) Tuberculosis
(b) Beverages
(c) Alcoholism
(d) Influenza
2. Why does Jurgis get his job back in the first place?
(a) The union helps him
(b) He begs
(c) The boss throws out the replacement worker
(d) The man in his position died
3. Whose factory is suddenly shut down, leaving this character without work?
(a) Marija
(b) Ona
(c) Jurgis
(d) Stanislovas
4. Why does Jurgis sell his vote?
(a) To upset the system
(b) To feed his family
(c) To buy his house
(d) To get money to drink
5. What happened to the boy Stanislovas with the broken off ears?
(a) Frostbite
(b) Disease
(c) Work injury
(d) Genetic defect
6. How long is their house to be rented for?
(a) 6 years
(b) 15 years
(c) 9 years
(d) 3 years
7. What does Jurgis hope for Stanislovas to do?
(a) Help more around the house
(b) Go to school
(c) Find a girl
(d) Get a job
8. What kinds of cows are killed, which upsets Jurgis as he works?
(a) Still alive cows
(b) Defective cows
(c) Sleeping cows
(d) Pregnant cows
9. Who falls in love with the violin player?
(a) Marija
(b) Jurgis
(c) Antanas
(d) Ona
10. What is the name of the collective group of businesses in Chicago?
(a) The Beef Headquarters
(b) The Beef Trust
(c) Cow Palace
(d) Packing Central
11. Who has had to give up her dream of marriage?
(a) Marija
(b) Ona
(c) Junita
(d) Elzbieta
12. What 'helps' Ona and Jurgis furnish their home?
(a) The welfare department
(b) Advertisements
(c) The mortgage company
(d) Interior designers
13. What does the person in #83 threaten to do if the character does not agree to prostitute herself?
(a) Tell her husband
(b) Blacklist her
(c) Fire the entire family
(d) Murder her
14. Who gets their job back, only to lose it again for speaking up for their rights?
(a) Jurgis
(b) Marija
(c) Stanislovas
(d) Ona
15. How old is Ona at her wedding?
(a) 25
(b) 30
(c) 16
(d) 21
Short Answer Questions
1. Who has been pressured into prostituting herself?
2. What does Jurgis become a part of in response to the action in #40?
3. What is the name of the place where the pigs are killed?
4. Where is the most diseased meat sent?
5. What is the reason Antanas can not find work?
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