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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is doctored with Borax to give it a certain flavor?
(a) Hamburgers
(b) 'Smoked' Sausages
(c) Porkchops
(d) Holiday hams

2. Who deserts the family and is never heard from again?
(a) Stanislovas
(b) Elzbieta
(c) Jonas
(d) Ona

3. What is Marija's job?
(a) Making sausages
(b) Painting cans
(c) Killing pigs
(d) Sewing clothes

4. What is another name for Chicago?
(a) Dirty Town
(b) Slaughter City
(c) Packingtown
(d) Depression Central

5. Who finds Jurgis his first job?
(a) Jack
(b) The delicatessen owner
(c) Conner
(d) Antanas

6. What 'helps' Ona and Jurgis furnish their home?
(a) The welfare department
(b) The mortgage company
(c) Interior designers
(d) Advertisements

7. Who is the leader of the band at the wedding reception?
(a) Jurgis
(b) Antanas
(c) Tamoszius
(d) Eric

8. What does the answer to #86 realize while they are in jail?
(a) They are alone
(b) They will lose their job
(c) The jail is better than their house
(d) They can't remember what they've done

9. Why does Ona want to get a job?
(a) So they can get married
(b) So she can pay off their house
(c) So she can buy things
(d) So she can have more children

10. What kinds of cows are killed, which upsets Jurgis as he works?
(a) Sleeping cows
(b) Pregnant cows
(c) Defective cows
(d) Still alive cows

11. Who wanted the wedding to be lavish?
(a) Ona
(b) Jurgis
(c) Elzbieta
(d) Stanislovas

12. What are men at the slaughterhouses dying of due to the weather?
(a) Fatigue
(b) Sunstroke
(c) Dysentery
(d) Frostbite

13. What does Jurgis hope for Stanislovas to do?
(a) Find a girl
(b) Go to school
(c) Get a job
(d) Help more around the house

14. What happened to the man who was in Jurgis' job before?
(a) He disappeared
(b) He was smashed
(c) He was fired
(d) He threatened the boss

15. Who begins to develop a cough like the one that killed Jurgis' father?
(a) Marija
(b) Jurgis
(c) Ona
(d) Antanas

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ona give birth to?

2. Where does Jurgis return to get his job back?

3. Who died in his sleep, working up until that point without trouble?

4. How do Ona and Jurgis pay for the furnishings they acquire?

5. How long does Jurgis have to be out of work?

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