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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. Why is Jurgis in prison?
(a) For making too much noise
(b) For stealing
(c) For eating up a man
(d) For being in a whorehouse

2. In the next election, how does the socialist vote do?
(a) It does better
(b) It doesn't improve or regress
(c) It doesn't make the ballot
(d) It does worse

3. What are men all over joining in order to change their lives?
(a) The Republican party
(b) The gentlemen's clubs
(c) The unions
(d) The socialist party

4. How did Stanislovas die?
(a) Frostbite
(b) Being eaten by rats
(c) Drowning
(d) Food poisoning

5. What does the new friend do for Jurgis?
(a) Gives him a coat
(b) Helps him find a job
(c) Invites him to dinner
(d) Nothing

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jurgis tell the person in #175 they can now do?

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

3. What happens to cause Jurgis to lose his job?

4. What does Jurgis do to sleep in a warm place?

5. When Jurgis is at his court date, who does not come to see him?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where does Jurgis next get a job at, that turns out to be a good position?

3. Where does the drunk young man take Jurgis?

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

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

6. What happens to Jurgis' $100?

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

8. What happens when there is a strike at the stockyard where Jurgis is working?

9. Is Jurgis successful in getting the rest of the family converted to socialism?

10. After the speech is over, what does Jurgis do?

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