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

2. Why does Jurgis sell his vote?
(a) To upset the system
(b) To get money to drink
(c) To feed his family
(d) To buy his house

3. What happens to the unborn calves of the slaughtered cows?
(a) They are sold
(b) They are killed too
(c) They are taken away
(d) They are raised into adulthood

4. What does the house become infested with?
(a) Rats
(b) Worms
(c) Termites
(d) Bugs

5. What does Jurgis understand for the first time as part of the union?
(a) Democracy
(b) Socialism
(c) Group dynamics
(d) English

Short Answer Questions

1. Who finds Jurgis his first job?

2. What does the family find out about their home?

3. What is another name for Chicago?

4. Who begins to develop a cough like the one that killed Jurgis' father?

5. Who is advertising hot meals that ends up causing Jurgis to eventually drink?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who wanted Ona and Jurgis to have a lavish wedding, even though they would have been fine with something simpler?

2. What is the Lithuanian family in the first chapter traveling to?

3. What is one of the ways the slaughterhouse bosses cheat the men out of money?

4. Why does Jurgis decline to be in the union at first?

5. What begins to happen to Ona in this chapter?

6. Why does Jurgis get his job back at Brown's?

7. Why is it not a big problem for Jurgis to find work, even though he can't speak English?

8. What does the family learn they must also pay on their home?

9. What does Jurgis begin to do in order to deal with the horrors of his situation?

10. After Jonas deserts the family, what does the family have to do in order to bring in more money?

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