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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. How did Jurgis' son die?
(a) Eating a bad sausage
(b) An infected cut
(c) An accident at work
(d) Fell off a sidewalk and drowned

2. Who is a lousy beggar?
(a) Jack
(b) Mark
(c) Jurgis
(d) Stanislovas

3. What does Jurgis try to convert the family to?
(a) Capitalism
(b) Socialism
(c) Democratic thinking
(d) Republican thinking

4. What does Jurgis have to do to get money?
(a) Sell his things
(b) Beg
(c) Work longer hours
(d) Ask his boss for a raise

5. What is the speaker talking about?
(a) Peace
(b) The working man's fate
(c) Democracy
(d) Higher wages

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the family focused on in their life right now?

2. What does Jurgis eventually do that helps him earn good money?

3. What does Jurgis do once he is far away from the city?

4. What is socialism described as in this chapter?

5. The answer to #166 are the _______ for the success of Packington.

Short Essay Questions

1. How far away is Jurgis' new job?

2. When Jurgis goes back to Chicago for the summer, where does he find employment?

3. Where does the drunk young man take Jurgis?

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

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

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

7. What does Ostrinski tell Jurgis should happen in Chicago?

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

9. What does Jurgis learn about Marija's whereabouts?

10. Where does Jurgis finally find the job that makes him happy, though he does not hold onto it for long?

(see the answer keys)

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