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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. Who owns the business for which Jurgis now works?
(a) Marija
(b) His drunken friend
(c) A socialist
(d) Conner

2. What is Jurgis' sentence?
(a) Time served
(b) A week
(c) 30 days
(d) 10 days

3. When Jurgis is at his court date, who does not come to see him?
(a) One of his children
(b) Stanislovas
(c) Elzbieta
(d) Ona

4. Who has cut their hand and can not work?
(a) Ona
(b) Elzbieta
(c) Stanislovas
(d) Marija

5. What is Jurgis now that he is out of jail again?
(a) A mine worker
(b) A hobo
(c) A deranged man
(d) A prominent boss

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is a lousy beggar?

2. What does Jurgis consider as he is in the mansion?

3. What does Jurgis try to convert the family to?

4. During what month of 1904 are people out of work?

5. What is the name of the boarding house where the family first stayed and returns to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the impassioned speech actually talking about in this chapter?

2. Overcome with grief after Ona's death, what does Jurgis do to soothe his sorrows?

3. Jurgis happens upon another political meeting. What is the topic this time?

4. When Jurgis gets out of the hospital, what does he do?

5. What caused little Antanas' death?

6. What happens to Jurgis' $100?

7. What does Jurgis have complete faith in by the end of the story?

8. What is the stroke of luck that Jurgis happens upon?

9. What is the first crime Jack Duane and Jurgis commit?

10. What is the senator talking about as Jurgis overhears a political meeting?

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