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Q. "So, bit by bit, the feast takes form—there is a ham and a dish of sauerkraut, boiled rice, macaroni, bologna sausages, great piles of penny buns, bowls of milk, and foaming pitchers of beer. There is also, not six feet from your back, the bar, where you may order all you please and do not have to pay for it. "Eiksz! Graicziau!" screams Marija Berczynskas, and falls to work herself—for there is more upon the stove inside that will be spoiled if it be not eaten." What event early in The Jungle does this quote describe?
Jurgis and Ona's wedding
a Lithuanian going-away party
This is just an Old World Sunday morning breakfast.
Marija and Tamoszius's wedding
Q. "'Little one,' he said, in a low voice, 'do not worry—it will not matter to us. We will pay them all somehow. I will work harder.'" Who says this to Ona?
Tamoszius
Stanislovas
No one ever
Jurgis
Q. Who decides that Teta Elbieta and Ona should stay home?
Ona
Jurgis
Teta
That's what women did in the early 1900s, so no one.
Q. The government inspector is described as:
a fat, lazy pig
a friendly dude with a fedora
not a hard worker
a hard worker
Q. Sinclair says, "It was one of the laws of the veselija that no one goes hungry; and […] a rule made in the forests of Lithuania is hard to apply in the stockyards district of Chicago […]." What does this quote foreshadow?
The family will go back to Lithuania.
Life in America will not be as easy as it seems.
The Lithuanian community won't allow anyone to go hungry.
What the heck is a veselija?