Story Facts
Antonia and her family immigrate to America from this country.
What is Czech Republic?
"I never knew you were so brave, Jim"
What is a quote form Jim to Antonia to Jim?
This character is the narrator of My Antonia.
Who is Jim Burden?
This American author is best known for her novels about frontier life, including My Antonia.
Who is Willa Cather?
Antonia's father, Mr. Shimerda, dies in this tragic way.
What is suicide?
Jim burden narrates My Antonia while reflecting on his life form this perspective.
What is adulthood?
"Jim, you and Antonia have something special. Don't let the world take that from you."
What did Mrs. Burden say about Jim and Antonia's relationship?
Antonia Shimerda's father, who struggles with life in America.
Who is Mr. Shimerda?
A consistent location in Willa Cather's books.
What is the frontier?
Jim Burden moves from Virginia to live with his grandparents on the Nebraska prairie at this age.
What is ten years old?
Mrs. Helmreich was born in this state.
What is California?
"There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but materiel out of which countries are made."
What is the description of the Nebraska landscape?
Charlotte's favorite color.
What is purple?
Born in this state, Willa Cather moved to Nebraska at the age of nine, where she found inspiration for many of her novels.
What is Virginia?
Antonia marries Anton Cusak and they raise their children on the farm in this state.
What is Nebraska?
Antonia marries Anton Cuzak and they has this many children.
What is eleven?
"My Antonia is a good girl. She'll make me proud one day."
What did Mr. Shimerda say to Antonia?
Jim Burden's caring and nurturing grandparents.
Who are Mr. and Mrs. Burden?
The year of 1918.
When was My Antonia published?
The books we read this semester in order.
What is the Scarlett Letter, Poetry by Poe, Civil Disobedience, Huck Finn, and The Crucible?
"Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past."
What was the reflection of Jim and Antonia's relationship? / What is the last line of the book?
This character marries Antonia and helps her run their farm.
Who is Anton Cuzak?
This is the year Willa Cather died.
What is 1947?
After high school, Jim moves to this city to attend university.
What is Lincoln?